ISBN: 9780813813707 - the art of versification (3 resultados)

Paper Back. Condición: Very Good. 127 pages. The book is a little worn. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1980 first edition, Iowa State University Press (Ames, Iowa), 6 x 9 inches tall paperbound in red glossy covers, index, viii, 127 pp. A very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Uncommon. ~TT~ [1.0P] A translation of the classical work Ars Versificatoria by Matthew of Vendome, which was written around 1175. The translator, Aubrey E. Galyon, who also contributes an introduction. The Ars versificatoria is the earliest of the 'new' arts of poetry and consists of four uneven parts: inner meaning; elegance of diction; schemata, tropes, and colors of rhetoric; and treatment of the material. These divisions do not correspond precisely with the divisions of rhetoric into invention, style, and arrangement. The poem's 'inner ideas' are understood or grasped through the topics of invention (the person and the act), and the treatise explains how they assume literary form.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. No Jacket. Second, Revised. 452pp.incl.index; HB green w/blk.; slight rub w/PONstamps,foredge,half-title,&bk.endpaper; clean,tight pgs. " .the book is primarily designed to serve the needs of a text for teaching an advanced course in sampling theory of surveys and of a reference book for statisticians entrusted with the planning of surveys for collecting statistics.".…