English Association, 1924 - 1984

File — Box: 8, Folder: 1

Scope and Contents

10 pamphlets containing lectures published by British charity The English Association between 1924 and 1984. All are Presidential Addresses, with the exception of Theodore Besterman’s 1973 Arundel Esdaile Lecture. Occasional manuscript material such as letters, leaflets, or other small pieces of ephemera are present along with individual pamphlets. Lecture dates reflect when the talk was delivered, and do not necessarily match the publication year. The materials included are as follows.

Presidential Addresses

1924: John Galsworthy, “On Expression”
1937: W.R. Inge, “Modernism in Literature”
1962: Sir Kenneth Clark, “Provincialism”
1970: Sir Basil Blackwell, “The Origins of Classics”
1977: V.S. Pritchett, “Autobiography”
1978: I.A. Richards, “Verse v. Prose”
1981: Conor Cruise O’Brien, “Edmund Burke, Master of English”
1983: Derek Brewer, “Traditional Stories and Their Meanings”
1984: Sir William Rees-Mogg, “The Plain Style in English Prose”

Miscellaneous

1973: Theodore Besterman, “Fifty Years a Bookman”

Dates

1924 - 1984

Conditions Governing Access

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