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Introduction and Notes by
Harold Love
PUBLICATION NUMBER 149
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
1971
GENERAL EDITORS
William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles
ADVISORY EDITORS
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Curt A. Zimansky, State University of Iowa
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Lilly Kurahashi, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
INTRODUCTION
The Publisher's Epistle to the
The Author's Epistle.
The First CANTO.
The Second CANTO.
The Third CANTO.
The Fourth CANTO.
PRESS VARIANTS
NOTES
REGULAR PUBLICATIONS FOR 1970-1971
SPECIAL PUBLICATION FOR 1969-1970-1971
The Augustan Reprint Society
Poeta de Tristibus: or, the Poet's Complaint (PdT) was published bytwo newly established booksellers, Henry Faithorne and John Kersey,early in November 1681 (title-page dated 1682). The poem is only one ofa large number of Restoration satires on writers as a group, its nearestneighbors in time being the pseudo-Rochester "A Session of the Poets,"the anonymous "Advice to Apollo," Mulgrave's "An Essay upon Satyr,"Otway's The Poet's Complaint, Robert Gould's "To Julian, Secretary tothe Muses," the anonymous "Satire on the Po