[Aristotle]. Pye, Henry James. A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle, by examples taken chiefly from the modern poets. To which is prefixed, a new and corrected edition of the translation of the Poetic. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1792
Modern quarter burgundy morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine, new endpapers. Bound with the half-title., xvi, 564, [9, index] pp.
Old ownership signature, dated 1870, on a preliminary blank. A few spots on fore- and bottom-margins, but an unusually clean, crisp, well-margined copy., Pye (1745-1813), a country gentleman and Member of Parliament from Berks hire with degrees from Magdalen College, Oxford, was the author of numerous poems and plays. His magnum opus is considered to be his epic poem in six books, Alfred (1801). He succeeded Thomas Warton as poet laureate in 1790, and for twenty-three years he performed his position with the utmost attention, producing a yearly ode on the king's birthday and numerous patriotic pieces. His translation of Aristotle's Poetics first appeared in 1788; a corrected version is appended to this commentary.
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