Mastering the Art of Understating Your Wealth
Thomas Keymer: The Tonsons, 5 May 2016
The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons
edited by Stephen Bernard.
Oxford, 386 pp., £95, March 2015,978 0 19 870085 2 Show More
edited by Stephen Bernard.
Oxford, 386 pp., £95, March 2015,
“... from upstart crow into national bard; there were theoreticians of ‘original composition’ like Edward Young, who set a premium on the rejection of classical models; there were book-trade entrepreneurs whose huge poetry anthologies cashed in on the landmark case of Donaldson v. Becket, which more or less destroyed copyright law; there were the pioneering ... ”