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A series of lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1913 and 1914, according to the Preface the text is pretty close to unchanged from the text of the lectures. The twelve chapters are entitled: - Inaugural - The Practice of Writing - On the Difference between Verse and Prose - On the Capital Difficulty of Verse - Interlude: On Jargon - On the Capital Difficulty of Prose - Some Principles Reaffirmed - On the Lineage of English Literature 1 - On the Lineage of English Literature 2 - English Literature in Our Universities 1 - English Literature in Our Universities 2 - On Style There is also an Index.