Ker W P Introduction (1 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 32pp. Printed paper covers, stapled. 16mo. Previous owner's name on title page. Staples corroding. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. An influential literary essay by English poet and playwright John Dryden (1631-1700), on the art of translation and his approach to adapting Aesop's Fables into English verse, with an introduction by Scottish literary scholar, William Paton Ker (1855-1923). Ker is repeatedly referred to in J R R Tolkien's essay, Beowulf.…