John Churton Collins: 2 books

John Churton Collins was described by the New York Times as a “man of great knowledge and of strong convictions” and “a brilliant writer.” Collected here are thirteen of his essays, most originally delivered as lectures on Shakespeare, Burke, Arnold, Johnson, Tennyson, and Browning, among others.

An eminent literary critic argues for the restoration of poetry to the place of honor it once held in ancient times in this 1905 collection on the Greek poets, Milton, Byron, William Watson, Gerald Massey, the poetry of America, and “The True Functions of Poetry.”