| Search Antiqbook |
Ask a question or
Order this book
Browse our books
Search our books
Book dealer info
BAYLY (ANSELM): The Alliance of Music, Poetry, and Oratory. Under the Head of Poetry is considered the Alliance of the Epic and Dramatic Poem, as it exists in the Iliad, Æneid and Paradise Lost.
London: Printed for John Stockdale..., 1789. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. iv, 384, engraved title-page, 19th century binder's cloth (faded and worn, with front joint torn), morocco label. With the 19th century bookplates of James Barratt, Lymm Hall, and Charles J. Bewlay, Carlton Hall on the front paste-down end-paper. This is undoubtedly Bayly's most interesting work; most of his previous works were theological, though some were philological and doubtless led to the topics Bayly considers in this book. His contribution to theories of prosody in 18th century England has been described by Paul Fussell in these words: "Bayly is another example of a prosodic theorist who attempts to embrace certain contradictory aspects of both the syllabic and the accentual systems, without realizing the fundamental impossibility of reconciling the wholly different aesthetic bases of the two systems" (Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England [1954], p. 146).
Offered for GBP 440.00 = appr. US$ 719.84 by: John Price Antiquarian Books - Book number: 3464
See more books from our catalog: music