Author: BRITISH ACADEMY
Title: Proceedings of the British Academy Volume LVIII 1972
Description: London: British Academy, 1974. First Edition; First Edition. Original Boards. 567 pages. With plates & tables. Glassine dustjacket. Light shelfwear. ; Hardcover; Annual Volume of Speeches read at the British Academy in 1972 on philosophy, literature, economics, history and literary history. Contents: - The Literate Anglo-Saxon - On sources and disseminations (Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture) . By J. E. Cross. Read 19 January 1972- The Discovery of America and the Discovery of Man (Raleigh Lecture on History) . By J. H. Elliott. Read 2 February 1972- Bertrand Russell as a Philosopher (Master Mind Lecture) . By Sir Alfred Ayer. Read 8 March 1972- British Foreign Policy since 1945 (Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lecture) . By Roy Jenkins. Read 28 March 1972- Unblotted Lines: Shakespeare at Work (Shakespeare Lecture) . By Molly M. Mahood. Read 26 April 1972- The Sceptical Anthropologist? Social Anthropology and Marxist Views on Society (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology) . By Raymond Firth. Read 3 May 1972- Some uses and misuses of the terms Baroque and Rococo as applied to architecture (Aspects of Art Lecture) . By Anthony Blunt. Read 10 May 1972- Donne: a London Poet (Chatterton Lecture on an English Poet) . By Barbara Everett. Read 24 May 1972. - In defence of objectivity (Philosophical Lecture) . By Mary B. Hesse. Read 4 October 1972- The International Monetary Problem (Keynes Lecture) . By Lord Robbins. Read 26 October 1972- The figure in a landscape: Wordsworth+s Early Poetry (Warton Lecture on English Poetry) . By Roger Sharrock. Read 8 November 1972- The Impartial Spectator (Dawes Hicks Lecture on Philosophy) . By D. D. Raphael. Read 22 November 1972. New in As New dust jacket .

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