Author: Ovid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Ovid's Epistles: Translated by Eminent Persons. Published by Sir Samuel Garth
Author: Ovid
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Most Disreputable Trade
Author: Thomas F. Bonnell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191559733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
A publishing phenomenon began in Glasgow in 1765. Uniform pocket editions of the English Poets printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis formed the first link in a chain of literary products that has grown ever since, as we see from series like Penguin Classics and Oxford World Classics. Bonnell explores the origins of this phenomenon, analysing more than a dozen multi-volume poetry collections that sprang from the British press over the next half century. Why such collections flourished so quickly, who published them, what forms they assumed, how they were marketed and advertised, how they initiated their readers into the rites of mass-market consumerism, and what role they played in the construction of a national literature are all questions central to the study. The collections played out against an epic battle over copyright law, and involved fierce contention for market share in the 'classics' among rival publishers. It brought despair to the most powerful of London printers, William Strahan, who prophesied that competition of this nature would ruin bookselling, turning it into 'the most pitiful, beggarly, precarious, unprofitable, and disreputable Trade in Britain'. Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets were part of such a collection, dubbed 'Johnson's Poets'. The third edition of this collection, published in 1810, brought the national project to its high water mark: it contained 129 poets, plus extensive translations from the Greek and Roman classics. By this point, all the features that characterize modern series of vernacular classics had been established, and never since has such an ambitious expression of the poetic canon been repeated, as Bonnell shows by peering forward into the nineteenth century and beyond. Based on work with archival materials, newspapers, handbills, prospectuses, and above all the books themselves, Bonnell's findings shed light on all aspects of the book trade. Valuable bibliographical data is presented regarding every collection, forming an indispensable resource for future work on the history of the English poetry canon.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191559733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
A publishing phenomenon began in Glasgow in 1765. Uniform pocket editions of the English Poets printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis formed the first link in a chain of literary products that has grown ever since, as we see from series like Penguin Classics and Oxford World Classics. Bonnell explores the origins of this phenomenon, analysing more than a dozen multi-volume poetry collections that sprang from the British press over the next half century. Why such collections flourished so quickly, who published them, what forms they assumed, how they were marketed and advertised, how they initiated their readers into the rites of mass-market consumerism, and what role they played in the construction of a national literature are all questions central to the study. The collections played out against an epic battle over copyright law, and involved fierce contention for market share in the 'classics' among rival publishers. It brought despair to the most powerful of London printers, William Strahan, who prophesied that competition of this nature would ruin bookselling, turning it into 'the most pitiful, beggarly, precarious, unprofitable, and disreputable Trade in Britain'. Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets were part of such a collection, dubbed 'Johnson's Poets'. The third edition of this collection, published in 1810, brought the national project to its high water mark: it contained 129 poets, plus extensive translations from the Greek and Roman classics. By this point, all the features that characterize modern series of vernacular classics had been established, and never since has such an ambitious expression of the poetic canon been repeated, as Bonnell shows by peering forward into the nineteenth century and beyond. Based on work with archival materials, newspapers, handbills, prospectuses, and above all the books themselves, Bonnell's findings shed light on all aspects of the book trade. Valuable bibliographical data is presented regarding every collection, forming an indispensable resource for future work on the history of the English poetry canon.
Ovid's Epistles
Author: Ovid
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Henry James and the Queerness of Style
Author: Mark Fenster
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081665493X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The true meaning of being fashionably late in Henry James’s late works.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081665493X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The true meaning of being fashionably late in Henry James’s late works.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Works of Jonathan Swift; ... Containing Additional Letters, Tracts and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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The Works of Jonathan Swift ... Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author, by Walter Scott, Esq
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Ovid: Everyman Poetry
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780223358
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Rome's greatest poet, famous for his love elegies, and his narrative poem, "Metamorphoses".
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780223358
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Rome's greatest poet, famous for his love elegies, and his narrative poem, "Metamorphoses".