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Title: An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients
Author: John Ogilvie
Commentator: Wallace Jackson
Release Date: April 6, 2008 [EBook #25008]
Language: English
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The Augustan Reprint Society
JOHN OGILVIE
An ESSAY on the LYRIC POETRY of the ANCIENTS
(1762)
Introduction by WALLACE JACKSON
Publication Number 139 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California, Los Angeles 1970
GENERAL EDITORS
William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles Maximillian E. Novak, University of Califor