Lonsdale, Roger ( Editor ) The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith. , London: Longmans, 1969.

Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 774 pages clean and tight. The complete poetic output of the three poets is presented in a reliable text, modernised on consistent principles. The Latin and Greek verse of Gray is included, with translations. This edition collects the biographical and historical information relevant to an understanding of the poetry, while literary parallels and poetic influences are also indicated. Corrections and additions have been made to texts in the standard scholarly editions of these poets. One important Goldsmith his has been used for the first time, and the poems of Collins include for the first time in a collected edition the `Drafts and Fragments' of his poetry separately printed in 1956, and the newly discovered Ms of his Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland. (Book ref. 128533)  £20.00

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