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Lecture by Dr. Butcher Last Night.

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Professor S. H. Batcher, LL.D., gave the fifth of his series of lectures, on "Greek Literary Criticism" last evening in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum.

Systematic criticism of either prose or poetry, Professor Butcher said, was late in appearance among the Greeks in the from of writing, although a constant oral interchange of ideas preceded it. A fine sense of discrimination and an ideal of artistic truth were developed in the popular mind at a period when Greek literature was most healthy in spirit and spontaneous in expression.

At the great public literary contests, the ideal poet was judged to be the one who best rendered his hearers virtuous and wise, and ennobled their spirits. A perfect poem, according to the Greeks, must have universality of matter and unity of form.

Professor Butcher will give his sixth and last lecture of the series, on "Greek Literary Criticism," on Thursday evening April 14, at 8 o'clock, in the Lectures Room of the Fogg Museum.

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