Taylorian Lecture

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The Taylorian Lecture is an annual talk on Modern European Literature held at the Taylor Institution, University of Oxford, since 1889. The first eleven lectures were published in 1900 as Studies in European Literature, the Taylorian Lectures 1889–1899. Lectures in the early 1900s were delivered but not published as a single collection. In 1917, Professors Charles Firth and Joseph Wright endowed a new annual lecture on Modern European Literature with War Stock, and this second series began in 1920. In 1930, a volume collecting the 1920–1930 lectures appeared as Studies in European Literature, the Taylorian Lectures Second Series, 1920–1930. Since 1930 no single collected volume has been issued, but individual lectures have been published.