Sinopsis

Mr. Vice-Chancellor, To be given the right, and therefore the duty, to speak in this place, and from this Chair; to speak for Oxford and on the high theme of Poetry, is indeed to be accorded a position which might well overweight even the most competent and confident Only to aspire to be Professor of Poetry is, as an old friend said to me a short time ago, an honour. Oxford has given me many honours. Some here may the 'smooth-tongued scholar' in Marlowe, who says