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Lutrin: a mock-heroic poem. In six canto's, render'd into English verse. To which is prefixed some account of Boileau's writings, and this translation. By N. Rowe Esq
by Boileau, Nicholas Despreaux
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London: printed for R. Burrough and J. Baker, at the Sun and Moon in Cornhill, E. Sanger and E. Curll, at the Post-House at the Middle Temple-Gate, and at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, 1708. Second edition in English and the first edition, first issue of this translation; 8vo, pp. [22], 122; uncut; engraved frontispiece by Van der Gucht after Knight; contemporary if not original marbled paper wrappers which are quite torn and creased, with losses; the text block, with curls at the edges, is sound, and clean. Boileau was an influential critic of French poetry and The Lutrin, ostensibly the first mock-heroic poem, which concerns the quarrel between two ecclesiastical dignitaries about where to place a lectern in a chapel, is sometimes said to have given Alexander Pope a model for The Rape of the Lock. With an account of Boileau's writings, and a notice of this translation by Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) and the translation itself by John Ozell. Foxon O-282.
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- Title
- Lutrin: a mock-heroic poem. In six canto's, render'd into English verse. To which is prefixed some account of Boileau's writings, and this translation. By N. Rowe Esq
- Author
- Boileau, Nicholas Despreaux
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- Used
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- printed for R. Burrough and J. Baker, at the Sun and Moon in Cornhill, E. Sanger and E. Curll, at the Post-House at the Middle T
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1708
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