The Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of Love

A 1961 scholarly reprint of Henry Fielding's 1760 prose paraphrase of the first book of Ovid's Ars Amoris, modernizing the Roman poem's advice on love with references to eighteenth-century English society. The edition includes an introduction on the work's publishing history.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic poetry›British and Irish poetry before 1780›Eighteenth-century poetry, 1700 to 1780

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Bibliophiles›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic poetry›British and Irish poetry before 1780›Eighteenth-century poetry, 1700 to 1780