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Poetics - Early works to 1800

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    Horace's epistle to the Pisos , on the art of poetry, translated into English verse, with observations and notes critical and explanatory.

    Horace | Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]
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    The complete art of poetry . In six parts. ... By Charles Gildon, Gent.

    Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724. | Date: 1718
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    A new translation of Horace's art of poetry, attempted in rhyme. By Mr. Henry Ames

    Horace | Date: 1728
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    The platonic lovers consisting of original letters, in prose and verse, that pass'd between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France, under the borrow'd Names of Cllo and Strephon; who took an Affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's occasional Compositions. With A Critical Essay; containing some Remarks upon the Nature of Epistolary and Elegiac Poetry; and on the most beautiful Passages in these Epistles. By the Ingenious Mr. John Porter.

    Fowke, Martha. | Date: M,DCC,XXXII. [1732]
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