Progress love four eclogues uncertainty (1 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: London: printed for L. Gilliver at Homer's Head in Fleetstreet, 1732
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In den Warenkorb8vo, pp. [iv], 28; half title and title page dusty and somewhat stained, else a fine copy, stitched, as issued. First octavo edition, preceded by two folio editions earlier the same year. Lyttleton's third publication, a collection of four short poems. Johnson's opinion of the work was coloured by his contempt for the form: 'The… verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers Of his Progress of Love, it is sufficient blame to say that it is pastoral'. It is fair to say that at this period, the genre was conventional, and convenient, for young writers at the beginning of a literary career. Foxon L335.