Distinguished Harvard Literary Studies

HAILED by critics everywhere as one of the most brilliant discussions of poetry upon its first appearance in 1919, this volume from the facile pen of Professor Lowes reaches its eighth printing with the current issue from the press of the Houghton Mifflin Co. Despite the fact that the various chapters were delivered as Lowell Lectures in 1916, they have lost none of the timeliness of their first appearance, and the volume remains one which the student of poetry cannot afford to neglect.

Particularly well done are the chapters relative to the "new poetry" of a decade ago; even in 1930 these sections remain some of the best that have been written on this controversial subject.