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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 California, Los Angeles_

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_

ADVISORY EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_
James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_
Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_
Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_
Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_
Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Samuel H. Monk, _University of Min