The Use and Abuse of Reading

A. E. HOUSMAN ABUSE OF READING association beauty BENTLEY HOUSE better bookish books and reading CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS classics countryside deliver the Annual E. E. Cummings Eighth Annual Lecture English EUSTON ROAD four Inns Frederic Harrison gain from reading give exquisite pleasure glory Gods or wondering habit of reading highest pleasure HONOURABLE SIR NORMAN human infinite Inner Temple instruction or knowledge interest invitation to deliver jargon John Masefield kind lawyer League has become leisure London lovers magic mankind matter meaning Middle Temple mind Montague National Book League Opinions of Tristram poet poetry President profession purpose of reading read for pleasure record RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT LUSTY sense of fellowship Sir Ernest Gowers SIR NORMAN BIRKETT Sir Walter Scott speak sphere sure taste things thought thousand tonight Trevelyan Tristram Shandy wise reader world of books Writer's Notes writing written