1682 1ed John Sheffield Essay On Poetry FAMOUS Tasso Milton Homer Virgil Pope

1682 1^ed John Sheffield Essay On Poetry FAMOUS Tasso Milton Homer Virgil Pope

 

John Sheffield was a 17^th-century English poet who published several essays, memoirs, and poetical works. As a patron of John Dryden, Sheffield adapted Shakespearean plays which were more than likely edited by Dryden. Sheffield, too, was close with Alexander Pope of whom spoke quite highly of Sheffield’s short work ‘An Essay Upon Poetry”. Sheffield used this work to criticize the work of Rochester and Cowley. Other notable names covered in this work include Tasso, Spencer, Milton, and Homer and Virgil.

 

Item number: #21846

Price: $950

 

SHEFFIELD, John of Buckingham

 

An essay upon poetry

 

London: printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, 1682. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [2], 21, [1]
• References: Wing B 5339
• Provenance: Bookplate – Edmund William Gosse
  • Sir Edmund William Gosse CB (1849–1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhood in the book Father and Son has been described as the first psychological biography. His translations of Henrik Ibsen helped to promote that playwright in England, and he encouraged the careers of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce. He also lectured in English literature at Cambridge University.
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8in X 6in (20cm x 15cm)
• Very rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at upwards of $2,000

 

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