Item #11390 Meliboeus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers Newly Edited, with a Preface by the Author of "Tom Brown's School-Days" James Russell Lowell.

Meliboeus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers Newly Edited, with a Preface by the Author of "Tom Brown's School-Days"

London: Trubner & Co., 1859. First edition, United Kingdom. Small 8vo, 140pp. Green stamped buckram cover, with gilt title on spine. Interior is very clean and bright, no fox spotting. This satiric poem, written in a rustic New England dialect, was submitted to The Boston Courier. It was inspired by Lowell's opposition to the recruiting drive for the Mexican American War; it also established him as a leader of the antislavery movement. Fine. Item #11390

Price: $50.00

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