Author: Thelma S. Fenster; Mary Carpenter Erler [editors]
Title: Poems of Cupid, God of Love
Description: Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1990. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce collection of romantic poetry with essays on their sources and influences. Scarce work. A collection of love poetry including Christine de Pizan's 'Epistre au dieu d'Amours' and 'Dit de la Rose', as well as Thomas Hoccleve's 'The Letter of Cupid&apos. With George Sewell's 'The Proclamation of Cupid&apos. With commentary on the Latin sources and influences, manuscripts, language and versification, editions and translations, textual notes, and more. Edited by Thelma S. Fenster, an American professor emerita of French and medieval studies at Fordham University, and Mary Carpenter Erler, an American literary scholar specialising in medieval and early modern English literature and printing, specialising in women's reading and book-ownership in the same periods. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small mark. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

Keywords: Poems Cupid God of Love Fenster Cupid None


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