Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poems
by RUSSELL, Thomas
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Oxford: D. Prince and J. Cooke, 1789. First edition. 4to. vi, 62 pp., without blank 1. Later half cloth and marbled boards; light foxing to title-page, occasional faint dampstain to lower corner, small piece from lower corner of D3 First edition of the posthumous publication of Thomas Russell's sonnets, an important influence on the early Romantics. Southey called him "the best English sonnet writer." "In his short lifetime of twenty-six years, Russell established himself as one of the masters of the English sonnet-form" (Hayward). Russell was a friend of the poet Thomas Warton and studied under his older brother Joseph, to whom this work is dedicated by the editor.REFERENCE: ESTC T49513; Hayward 199
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- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poems
- Author
- RUSSELL, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Prince and J. Cooke
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1789
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