Hardcover, FINE/VERY GOOD PLUS, 2nd printing, purple cloth with gilt titles. This essay defines the living interest for us today of the writers in the period 1490 - 1550 who were capable of "making it new", who, guided by an instinct for life and health, through intelligent adaptation of classical models brought to bear on the problems of their day what Matthew Arnold styled 'a central, a truly human point of view'. p.o. name on fep. 296 pp.

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