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  • Seller image for BRITISH AND AMERICAN CLASSICAL POEMS IN CONTINUATION OF LUDWIG HERRIG'S CLASSICAL AUTHORS (SIGNED) for sale by Blackwood Bookhouse; Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller

    Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Braunschweig, Germany: Georg Westermann, 1966. 10 x 7 inches:pp. xvi, 380. Brown lettering to spine and front of illustrated beige boards. Black and white illustrations. Front illustration is section of Henry Hawkins's engraving, Partheneia Sacra. Endpapers show black and white illustration of Shakespeare's London. With Descriptive list of illustrations, Index of authors with biographical notes, Acknowledgements, Historical Chart, Index of title, and Index of first lines. Association copy inscribed by author to noted medieval scholar Stanley Greenfield to half-title page - "For Stanley Greenfield - to remember Heidelberg on a rainy day - from Horst Meller, 30-1-75." Text is unmarked. Binding crisp, tight. This anthology is to present English poetry as living literature. Illustrations have been selected to give a pictorial commentary to the text. Contents include : Traditional Ballads, Narrative Poems, Dramatic Monologues, Short Lyrics and Songs, Pastorals and Anacreontics, Sonnets, Old French Forms, Elegies, Odes, Poems of prayer and meditation, Reflective verse and verse essays, Imitations, Verse satire, Epigrams, Light verse and dark humour, and Nursery rhymes. Association copy inscribed by author to noted medieval scholar Stanley Greenfield.