Secondary Worlds: The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, Delivered at Eliot College in the University of Kent at Canterbury, October, 1967

The first three lectures are each concerned with a particular genre; 'The Martyr as Dramatic Hero', 'The World of Sagas' (dealing with the epics of Iceland in particular), and 'The World of Opera'. The last lecture, 'Words and the Word', is specifically concerned with a topic that lurks in the background, sometimes further, sometimes nearer, in the three previous essays: particular problems and opportunities raised by Christianity (the Word) for poets and their secondary worlds (Words). Foreword 11 The Martyr as Dramatic Hero 13 The World of Sagas 47 The World of Opera 85 Words and the Word 117