1933 The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England

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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition, first impression.

A detailed and informative work from the poet, essayist and playwright, a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Including discussion of Dryden, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and modernism.

From the library of English lecturer at Exeter University, Harold Andrew Mason. With his ink inscription to the head of the front free endpaper, and with significant pencil critical notations to front pastedown, front free endpaper, and to a small number of leaves. With the note 'behave yourself, Eliot!' to the final leaf.

Mason was elected to F. R. Leavis Lectureship and a Fellow of Clare Hall in 1965. In 1966 he founded The Cambridge Quarterly, of which he was the editor.