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Tragedy

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    The poetical wanderer: containing, dissertations on the early poetry of Greece, on tragic poetry, and on the power of noble actions on the mind. To which are added, several poems. By the author of Miscellaneous works. [Ten lines from Akenside]

    Linn, John Blair, 1777-1804. | Date: --1796
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    Essays on Aristotle's Poetics / edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty.

    | Date: [1992], ©1992
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    Oedipus tyrannus : a new translation : passages from ancient authors : religion and psychology : some studies : criticism / Sophocles ; translated and edited by Luci Berkowitz and Theodore F. Brunner.

    Sophocles | Date: [1970], ©1970
    • Pictures

    A woman holding a dagger, personifying tragedy. Stipple engraving by H. Sintzenich, 1782, after A. Kauffmann.

    Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807 | Date: Oct.r 1st 1782 | Reference: 2439208i
    • Pictures

    Six female figures in costumes associated with the arts. Lithograph.

    | Reference: 27276i
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