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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poetry for Poetry's Sake, by A. C. Bradley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Poetry for Poetry's Sake An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on June 5, 1901 Author: A. C. Bradley Release Date: January 15, 2008 [EBook #24308] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POETRY FOR POETRY'S SAKE *** Produced by K. Nordquist, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) _Poetry for Poetry's Sake_ HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH NEW YORK _Poetry For Poetry's Sake_ AN INAUGURAL LECTURE DELIVERED ON JUNE 5, 1901 BY A. C. BRADLEY, M.A., LL.D. PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FORMERLY FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1901 NOTE.--This Lecture is printed almost as it was delivered. I am aware that, especially in the earlier pages, difficult subjects are treated in a manner far too summary, but they require an exposition so full that it would destroy the original form of the Lecture, while a slight expansion would do little to provide against misunderstandings. A. C. B. POETRY FOR POETRY'S SAKE One who, after twenty years, is restored to the University where he was taught and first tried to teach, and who has received at the hands of his Alma Mater an honour of which he never dreamed, is tempted to speak both of himself and of her. But I remember that you have come to listen to my thoughts about a great subject, and not to my feelings about myself; and, of Oxford, who that holds this Professorship could dare to speak, when he recalls the exquisite verse in which one of his predecessors described her beauty, and the prose in which he gently touched on her illusions and protested that they were as nothing when set against her age-long warfare with the Philistine? How, again, remembering him and others, should I venture to praise my predecessors? It would be p
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