Dryden, John THE WORKS OF LUCIAN, TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK, BY SEVERAL EMINENT HANDS; 6309 1711 First Edition Quarter Leather VG This is the first volume of a four-volume set. Important for containing Dryden's Life of Lucian. With an engraving of
the bust of Lucian by W. Faithorne facing engraved title page. (MacDonald 141) Repaired shallow chip to first page ;
negligible foxing. Rebound in quarter-leather with marbled-paper boards. Lucian of Samosata was an Assyrian satirist and rhetorician best known for his extensive use of sarcasm in ridiculing
superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal. Lucian's works had a major impact on Western
literature and inspired such writers as Thomas Moore, Shakespeare, Francois Rabelais, and Jonathan Swift. John Dryden
was an English poet, translator, and playwright appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He dominated English
literature in Restoration England to such an extent that the period became known in literary circles as the Age of
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