The Letters of John Gay
Edited by
C. F. BURGESS,
Virginia Military Institute.
In this volume, Gay's
letters are brought together in a convenient, single source and considered
as an entity for the first time. All of his letters known to be extant are
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the finest examples of the witty, sprightly, informal letter which the
eighteenth century succeeded in elevating to an art form.
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Joseph Spence: Obsel'vations, Anecdotes and
Characters of Books and Men
Edited by
JAMES M. OSBORN,
Yale University.
Ever since Dr. Johnson's
Li1Jes of the Poets,
the conversations r ecorded from the lips of Pope and
his contemporaries by J oseph Spence, Prof essor of Poetry at Oxford, have
been a prime source for the literary and social history of the early
eighteenth century. In this new edition, based on original manuscripts, a
third of the material is new-and for the first time .comprehensive ex–
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Letters of Arnold Bennett
Volume I: L etters to
J.
B.
Pinker
Edited by
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University of Rhode Island.
This volume con–
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1901
and his
death in
1931.
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The Poems of John Cleveland
Edited by
BRIAN MORRIS,
Uni1J e1'sity of N ew York, and
ELEANOR
WITHINGTON,
Queens College, New York.
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