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  • THE PARADISE OF TRAVELLERS
    A. LYTTON SELLS
    Italy in the Seicento retained her prestige as the country most advanced in the arts of civilization. She was still, with France, and prior to the formation of the Royal Society, in the van of scientific research. The Academy of St. Luke in Rome was the greatest art school in the world. Scientists like Galileo, historians like Paolo Sarpi, added new lustre to her name. Venice, ...

    $1,480.00

  • THOMAS GRAY
    A.L. LYTTON SELLS
    First published in 1980, Thomas Gray is a comprehensive biography of Thomas Gray together with a selection of his letters, which reveal his character clearly, and a critical reassessment of his poems. The author’s intention is to place the man and the poet in a truer focus than has any previous writer. As any critic of Gray must, the author seeks answers to various questions—wh...

    $800.00

  • THE ITALIAN INFLUENCE IN ENGLISH POETRY
    A. LYTTON SELLS
    If poetry was the fashionable mode of expression in Tudor England, ‘Great Italy’, as Shakespeare called her, was the land of predilection for Englishmen. They looked to Italy for lessons in philosophy, good breeding, in the art of civilization and the art of government. Englishmen travelled to Italy and lived as students in Padua; Italian Protestants came to England—Vermigli, G...

    $800.00

  • OLIVER GOLDSMITH
    A. LYTTON SELLS
    In view of the author of Oliver Goldsmith (originally published in 1974), the many biographies which have appeared seem defective in several respects. They either omit information which is readily available, or ignore essential features of Goldsmith’s life and character, or fail to see the real problems which should be considered; they are too prone to pass over or make light o...

    $1,480.00