Author: VOSSIUS, I.].
Title: De poematum cantu et viribus rythmi.
Description: Oxford, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1673. 8vo. [xiv], 136 pp. W. 2 ills (depicting a lyre and an organ). Full calf, blindstamped boards, gilt board-edges (spine very sl.worn, stamp on flyleaf and title, name erased from titlepage, small hole in first leaf of Praefatio with loss of two letters; almost contemporary (?) note on verso flyleaf). ¶ "Here Vossius investigates the close connection between poetry and music in the classics, and for the moderns he recommends strict adherence to the ancient rules of prosody." (J.A. van der Welle, Dryden and Holland, 1962, p.113)

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