Author: William Hazlitt
Title: Selected Poets of Great Britain to Which Are Prefixed Critical Notes of Each Author
Description: London , Thomas Tegg, 1825 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound collection of poetry and critical notes created by William Hazlitt. The first edition trade edition. First published the year prior, but suppressed due to copyright infringement. Handsomely bound in a contemporary half calf binding. This book aims to create a detailed work on British poets. This volume aims to improve upon the Elegant Extracts in Verse by Dr Knox.Each poem is accompanied by critical notes on why the text is significant within the literary canon. Poets included in this work are Chaucer, Drayton, Milton, Gay, and Swift.Includes a frontispiece showing some of the poets explored within the text. Handsomely bound in a half calf binding. Externally very smart. Light marks to the boards. Bumping to the corners. Rubbing to the front joint. Internally firmly bound. Spotting to the first and last pages but generally, the pages are bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Poetry Great Britain Critical Notes Great Britain None


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