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[ SOLD OUT ] LAIDLAW, W.A., Latin Literature. Methuen, London, 1951. 1st ed. 229p. Cloth. Cover a little bit grimy. Name and address on free endpaper. 'Professor Laidlaw's book (...) differs from most other works of the kind in that it is arranged not chronologically but by literary genres. (...) Now it is true that the boundaries between different literary forms were sharply drawn in the ancient world, and that a writer of epic poetry or drama or history was far more conscious than he would be today of the patterns established by his predecessors. (...) Yet the experiment as a whole does not seem successful. In the first place, it is difficult within Laidlaw's framework to find room for comparison of the work of the same writer in different genres. (...). Secondly, the sense of 'period's lost when the whole course of Latin literature has to be rapidly surveyed for each separate kind of writing. (...) Thirdly, connexions are blurred by the order of treatment. (...) to those however, who know the background and can supply the missing connexions the book is well worth reading: it is full of shrewd and sympathetic judgement succinctly expressed.' (ROBERT BROWNING in The Classical Review (New Series), 1953, p.201). (Antiquarian) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable)