Author: BRITISH ACADEMY
Title: Proceedings of the British Academy Volume LVI 1970
Description: London: British Academy, 1972. First Edition; First Edition. Original Boards. 461 pages. With plates. Card dustjacket. Light wear & light chipping to dustjacket, otherwise new. ; Hardcover; Annual Volume of Speeches read at the British Academy in 1970 on philosophy, literature, economics, history and literary history. Contents: - The Nature of Alliterative Poetry in Late Medieval England (Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture) . By Geoffrey Shepherd. Read 21 January 1970- The Poetry of Lord Byron (Warton Lecture on English Poetry) . By John Buxton. Read 4 February 1970- Person and Office in Shakespeare+s Plays (Shakespeare Lecture) . By Philip Edwards. Read 29 April 1970- The Master of the Breviary of Jean sans Peur and the Limbourgs (Aspects of Art Lecture) . By Millard Meiss. Read 13 May 1970- Morality and Art (Philosophical Lecture) . By Philippa Foot. Read 20 May 1970- The Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes (Raleigh Lecture on History) . By J. N. L. Myres. Read 27 May 1970- Eratosthenes of Cyrene (Lecture on a Master Mind) . By P. M. Fraser. Read 10 June 1970- The Role and Character of the Civil Service (Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lecture) . By Sir William Armstrong. Read 24 June 1970- Activity and Description in Aristotle and the Stoa (Dawes Hicks Lecture on Philosophy) . By A. C. Lloyd. Read 18 November 1970- Wilfred Owen (Chatterton Lecture on an English Poet) . By Jon Stallworthy. Read 2 December 1970. New in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: Humanities Sciences Social & Cultural