Xii, 335, (1) pages + 4 pages advertisements. No signatures. Small stain on front board. 1/4" fraying to tail corner of front board. Edges of spine and boards rubbed. Book contains six lectures on poetry. Selected contents: Dryden; Cowper; Origin of the Lake School; S. T. Coleridge; Robert Southey; William Wordsworth; Ballad Poetry; Succession of Lord Byron; New Phases of the Poetic Mind; Leigh Hunt; Female constellation; Felicia Hemans; Cry of the Children; The Angel World; Mysticism and obscurity the pervading faults of our recent poetry. ; 12mo. Seller Inventory # 001373

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Title: Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the ...

Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh

Publication Date: 1856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Edition: Third Edition.

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Malcolm Moncrief-Spittle, trading as Renaissance Books. Contact details: Renaissance Books, PO Box 335, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. Phone: +64 3 4719294. Email: renaissancebooksnz@gmail.com. Website: www.renaissancebooks.co.nz. GST #39 820 209. Terms of Sale: All books may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund of the book price, not including shipping. Return shipping also refunded where books are not as described.

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