Senecan Amble, The: A Study i Prose Form From Bacon to Collier

Williamson, George

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 377 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Previous owners inscription on front flyleaf. Red fabric covered boards are in great shape. Pages and edges are lightly yellow from age. dust jacket shows some age wear, yellowing, fraying at top and bottom of spine, otherwise intact and in good shape and covered with protected plastic book cover. From the front flap: "This study is concerned with the vicissitudes of Senecan imitation and Senecan prose theory between the Renaissance and the age of Pope. It defines the course of English prose style in the period by an analysis of two rival schools of imitations, the Ciceronian and the Senecan."

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