Or Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of those First Requisites of their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?"
Smith, Elder, & Co., 1845.
First edition. Small 8v. Original pale green fine ribbed cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Carter's variant B, described as a gift binding "handsomely bound in new kind of cloth, g.e. 10/6". A very good copy, marks to the covers and gift inscription to the front free endpaper.
This book is intended for all lovers of poetry [Preface] in which Hunt analyses poetry from the great English poets, including Shakespeare, Johnson, Webster, Milton, Coleridge and Keats, amongst others.
Carter p. 119
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