ELIOT TO GIVE SERIES OF NORTON LECTURES

T. S. Eliot '10, the distinguished poet and critic, will give two series of public lectures at Harvard as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the current academic year. He is the first American to receive this honor since the Norton professorship was established six years ago.

The lectures will be divided into two groups, both on the subject of "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism." The subject and dates for the first series of four lectures are as follows: "The Relation of Criticism and Poetry," November 4; "Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth," November 25; "The Classical Tradition: Dryden on Johnson," December 2; "The Theories of Coleridge and Wordsworth," December 9. The lectures will be given at 8 o'clock in the evening at the New Lecture Hall. They will be open to the public as well as to members of the University.

During the second half-year, Professor Eliot will give a course in modern English Literature, called English 26, which will deal with British work from about 1890 to the present time.

Professor Eliot, who has in recent years lived in London as a British citizen, where he is editor of "The Criterion," is widely known, both as a poet and critical essayist. He received "The Dial" award for poetry in 1922. His most widely, known works are: "The Sacred Wood," "The Waste Land," "Homage to John Dryden," "Poems: 1909-1925," "An Essay of Poetic Drama," "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," "For Lancelot Andrews" and "Dante."