Author: MANWARING (Edward):
Title: An Historical and Critical Account Of the most Eminent Classic Authors in Poetry and History. In Three Parts.
Description: London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby..., 1737. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], vi [vii-x Contents], 365 [366-368 adverts], contemporary speckled calf; upper and lower joints cracked, one corner badly worn, lacks label, ex-library, with library stamp of Beddington Free Grace Library on several pages. With the armorial bookplate of the mathematician Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh Bart. (1751 - 1804) on the front paste-down end-paper. Manwaring develops some interesting ideas about language in his book. Remarking in his introduction that we "learn indeed these Authors at School, but what do we learn? The Interpretation, perhaps, of the Words, not much of the Things...," and he considers the psychological effects that literature, particularly poetry and drama, have on the reader/spectator.

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