The 7 essays in this volume are concerned with the central How have major poets of the past used and altered poetic tradition? The poets that are the subject of these essays are Pindar, Euripides, Horace, Vergil, Spencer, Herbert, and Whitman. Each essay was delivered during the academic year of 1965-6 at the John Hopkins University as the Percy Graeme Turnball Memorial Lectures on Poetry.
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