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Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry
By Brooks Otis.
In an extensive analysis of Virgil's
poetry,
Professor
Otis shows the poet's brilliant use of ancient form and con!ent for his
own quite contempo:ary
purp~e. ~he
sty.le
~d
symbolIsm .of tl;te
Aeneid
and the mean10g of VIrgil's "IdeologIcal poetry are def10ed 10
relation to the art and ideas earlier adumbrated in his
Eclogues
and
Georgics.
Nine appendices deal with Virgilian composition, literature,
and criticism.
$7.20
Religio Medici
and Other Works by Sir Thomas Browne
Edited-by L. C. Martin.
Included in this volume are the texts of
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, The Garden
of
Cyrus, Christian Morals,
and
A Letter to a Friend
(printed in full from the manuscript for the
fir8t time). Dr. Martin has freshly surveyed the texts, following first (or
authorized) editions as closely as possible; he also provides critical notes
and commentary. With help from the catalog of Browne's private library
he has been able to identify much of the literature which influenced his
thought.
Oxford English Texts.
$10.10
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Poems
Edited by Emrys Jones.
The introduction to this volume considers
Surrey in the light of Thomas Warton's phrase "the first English classical
poet," and in
his
own right as a poet with distinctive strength and
delicacy of style. The historical importance to poetry of his striking
innovations in meter,
syntax
and diction, and of his early use of blank
verse, have long been recognized. Surrey's neglected translations of
Virgil, printed here in full, may now
be
compared with earlier versions by
Gavin Douglas, excerpted in selections from his works recently pub–
lished in this series. Texts have been newly edited, glossed, and anno–
tated.
Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series.
$3.40
Wayside Poems
of the Early Eighteenth Century
Edited by Edmund Blunden and Bernard Mellor.
"Wayside" is the
expressive title of a series of small scholarly anthologies of English poems
generally inaccessible. This selection, the second in the series, follows
Wayside Poems of the Seventeenth Century.
The editors have selected
a~cording
to
~either
rarity value nor artistic quality, but according to
4Ictates of delIght and fancy. Close to forty poets speak in curious and
lively fashion in this volume, which includes a commentary, a glossary,
and an index of first lines.
$3.00
Oxford University Press I .New York