Purpose Vol. XII.Nos. 3 & 4: July – December 1940

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Symons, W.T (editor); Eliot, T. S. (The Poetry of Yeats); Auden, W. H.; Spender, Stephen. Purpose Vol. XII.Nos. 3 & 4: July – December 1940. London: The C. W. Daniel Company Limited, 1940. First Edition. Card Wrappers. Good. (64pp.) In addition to the text of the first annual Yeats lecture delivered by Eliot to the Friends of the Irish Academy at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin Eliot contributes a review on the anthropologist, J. D. Unwin’s Hopousia. Other reviews include those by Herbert Read on Arthur Waley’s Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China & Edwin Muir on Pound’s Cantos LII – LXXI, Auden’s Another Time & Barker’s Lament & Triumph. Spender contributes Some Notes on being a Poet Today & Auden’s A Literary Transference is on his own poetic influences. Text-block re-glued into covers which had split at the spine.