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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Poems consisting chiefly of translations from the Asiatik languages, to which are added two essays, 1. On the poetry of the eastern nations, 2. On the Arts, commonly called imitative / Sir William Jones. |
| Author: | Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794 |
| Publisher: | Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1772. |
| Pages: | viii, 217 p. |
| Language: | English |
| Contents: | Solima, an Arabian ecologue -- The palace of fortune, an Indian tale -- The seven fountains, an Eastern allegory -- A Persian song of Hafez -- An ode to Petrarch -- Laura, an elegy, from Petrarch -- A Turkish ode on the spring by Mesihi -- Arcadia, a pastoral poem -- Caissa, or the game at chess -- Essays - On the poetry of the Eastern nations -- On the arts, commonly called imitative. |
| Descriptors: | Poetry, Ancient |
| Location: | Bodleian, Oxford. Bod 3967 e.2 |
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