The English Department is presenting the first of three talks on American litterature at 4 p.m. today in the Alumnae Lecture Room of Longfellow Hall at Radcliffe.
Professor N. H. Pearson of Yale will speak on "Billy Budd: The King's Yarn" in this afternoon's session.
Next Thursday "Faulkner: The Vision of Human Integrity" will be discussed by Alfred Kazin. In the final talk, on Thursday, February 22, Professor Lionel Trilling of Columbia will analyze "William Dean Howells and the Roots of Taste."
Kazin, a New York writer, taught during the summer of 1947 at the Salzburg Seminar. He was formerly the literary editor of the New Republic. In addition to his teaching duties. Trilling is a member of the staffs of the Kenyon Review and the Partisan Review.
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