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SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY LECTURES ON
HAMLET, OTHELLO, KING LEAR, MACBETH MACMILLAN & CO LTD.
OXFORD LECTURES
ON POETRY BY A. C. BRADLEY
LL.D., LITT.D. FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
AND FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE
MACMILLAN London · Melbourne · Toronto ST MARTIN'S PRESS
New York
1965
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MY OXFORD FRIENDS
1869 1909 'They have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a
vast; and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.'
PREFACE
This volume consists of lectures delivered during my tenure of the Chair
of Poetry at Oxford and not included in Shakespearean Tragedy . Most of
them have been enlarged, and all have been revised. As they were given
at intervals, and the majority before the publication of that book, they
contained repetitions which I have not found it possible wholly to
remove. Readers of a lecture published by the University of Manchester
on English Poetry and German Philosophy in the Age of Wordsworth will
pardon also the restatement of some ideas expressed in it. The several lectures are dated, as I have been unable to take account of
most of the literature on their subjects published since they were
delivered. They are arranged in the order that seems best to me, but it is of
importance only in the case of the four which deal with the poets of
Wordsworth's time. I am indebted to the Delegates of the University Press, and to the
proprietors and editors of the Hibbert Journal and the Albany ,
Fortnightly , and Quarterly Reviews , respectively, for permission to
republish the first, third, fifth, eighth, and ninth lectures. A like
acknowledgment is due for leave to use some sentences of an article on
Keats contributed to Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature
(1903). In the revision of the proof sheets I owed much help to a sister who has
shared many of my Oxford friendships.
NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
This edition is substantially identical with the first; but it and its
later impressions contain a few improvements in points of detail, and,
thanks to criticisms by my brother, F. H. Bradley, I hope to have made
my meaning clearer in some pages of the second lecture. There was an oversight in the first edition which I regret. In adding
the note on p. 247 I forgot that I had not referred to Professor Dowden
in the lecture on "Shakespeare the Man." In everything that I have
written on Shakespeare I am indebted to Professor Dowden, and certainly
not least in that lecture.
CONTENTS
PAGE
POETRY FOR POETRY'S SAKE 3 THE SUBLIME 37 HEGEL'S THEORY OF TRAGEDY 69 WORDSWORTH 99 SHELLEY'S VIEW OF POETRY 151 THE LONG POEM IN THE AGE OF WORDSWORTH 177 THE LETTERS OF KEATS 209 THE REJECTION OF FALSTAFF 247 SHAKESPEARE'S 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA' 279 SHAKESPEARE THE MAN 311 SHAKESPEARE'S THEATRE AND AUDIENCE 361
POETRY FOR POETRY'S SAKE
POETRY FOR POETRY'S SAKE[1] (INAUGURAL LECTURE)
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... Continue reading book >>
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