{ "item_title" : "The Mirror for Magistrates", "item_author" : [" Lily B. Campbell "], "item_description" : "Since the publication of Warton's History of English Poetry, some account of the Mirror for Magistrates has been included in almost every history of English literature. Bibliographers have recognized as intriguing the complex history of its printing. Sackville's induction has been decreed the best poem in English between Chaucer and Spenser and is duly incorporated in anthologies of the period. Historians of the drama have from time to time noted that the work contains tragedies which in the reign of Elizabeth were remade in dramatic form. Yet the Mirror itself remains practically unknown and unread, its tragedies are classed as medieval, and literary criticism has dealt scarcely at all with its experiments in verse, its critical theory, its poetic vocabulary, its embodiment of a new conception of tragedy, and similar matters where darkness should be turned into day. The reason for the neglect of a work so generally recognized as important is not far to seek, however, for the early editions are extremely rare, and the only modem edition, that by Joseph Haslewood, was published in 18x5 in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/40/673/777/1406737771_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "37.99", "online_price" : "37.99", "our_price" : "37.99", "club_price" : "37.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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