Taylorian Lecture
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The Taylorian Lecture, sometimes referred to as the "Special Taylorian Lecture" or "Taylorian Special Lecture", is a prestigious annual lecture on Modern European Literature, delivered at the Taylor Institution in the University of Oxford since 1889.
The first eleven lectures were published collectively in 1900, under the title Studies in European Literature, being the Taylorian Lectures 1889—1899:
- 1889: Edward Dowden, “Literary Criticism in France”
- 1890: Walter Pater, “Prosper Mérimée”
- 1891: W. M. Rossetti, “Leopardi”
- 1892: T. W. Rolleston, “Lessing and Modern German Literature”
- 1893 (delivered 1894): Stéphane Mallarmé, “La musique et les lettres” (Music and Literature)
- 1894: Alfred Morel-Fatio, “L'Espagne du Don Quijote”
- 1895: H. R. F. Brown, “Paolo Sarpi”
- 1896 (delivered 1897): Paul Bourget, “Gustave Flaubert”
- 1897: C. H. Herford, “Goethe’s Italian Journey”
- 1898: Henry Butler Clarke, “The Spanish Rogue-Story”
- 1899 (delivered 1900): W. P. Ker, “Boccaccio”
1900-1920
Further lectures were delivered in the first few years of the 20th century, but were not published collectively:
- 1900: Émile Verhaeren, "La poésie française actuelle"
- 1901: Arthur Anthony Macdonell, "The Wit and Pathos of Heinrich Heine"
- 1902: James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, “Lope De Vega and Spanish Drama”
- 1903: Henry Calthrop Hollway-Calthrop, “Francesco Petrarcha”
- 1904: George Saintsbury, “Théophile Gautier: a French Man of Letters of All Work”