In a letter of May 21, 1924, an English literary critic invited T.S. Eliot to speak to the club on “any subject connected with the Elizabethan drama.”
As late as November 6, Eliot told Richard Aldington that the lecture was “still in very rough shape.” Shortly afterward he wrote to Virginia Woolf that, despite all of his labors, it proved “unworthy of subsequent publication.”
Despite T.S. Eliot’s belief, his long-lost lecture on Elizabethan and Jacobean writer George Chapman, who was renowned for his Homer’s translation, was recently published on the New York Review of Books.