An Essay on the Characteristic Differences between Ancient and Modern Poetry. And the Several Causes from which they result
by RICHARDS (George):
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[No place ? Oxford] [No publisher] [1789.]. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 265 x 194 mms. pp. [ii], 26, cased in modern boards; some soiling of text, fore-margin of title-page frayed and shorter than other leaves. Signed and dated at the end of the text: George Richards, A. B. Trinity College, Oxford, June 26, 1789. With two contemporary autographs on the title-page: "The Rev. Mr. Price" and "F. Kett." The poet and clergyman George Richards (1767 - 1837) would have been in his early twenties when he wrote this essay, for which he gained a chancellor's prize at Oxford. Thomas Warton was on the committee that awarded the prize. The work reappeared in 1791 in a slightly different guise: An Essay on the Characteristic Differences between Ancient and Modern Poetry. Richards' writings have attracted a modest amount of scholarly and critical interest, and in particular his treatment of the pastoral in this volume is sometimes cited in studies of that literary form.
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- An Essay on the Characteristic Differences between Ancient and Modern Poetry. And the Several Causes from which they result
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- Hardcover
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- [No place ? Oxford] [No publisher] [1789.]
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