Pope: The Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, 10 May, 1919

by John William Mackail

Excerpt from Pope: The Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, 10 May, 1919

Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade.

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57 pages, Paperback

First published August 5, 2015

About the author

John William Mackail, OM was a Scottish man of letters, academic of Oxford University, and scholar of Virgil. He was the official biographer of the socialist artist William Morris, of whom he was a friend.

Mackail was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1906 to 1911, and President of the British Academy from 1932 to 1936.