De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum
Subtitle: Praelectiones Academicae Oxonii habitae a Roberto Lowth A.M. Colegii Novi nuper socio, et Poeticae Publico praelectore : Subjicitur Metricae Harianae brevis confutati: et Oratio Crewiana ....
Contributors: Mason, William, 1725-1797.
Edition: 'Editio altera, emendiatior'.
Publisher: E Typographeo Clarendiniano
Published: 1763
Place of publication: Oxonii
Language: mul
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Hare, Francis, -- 1671-1740.; Crew, Nathaniel, -- 1633-1721.
Other titles: De Poeticae Fine et Utilitate.
Notes: The DNB lists these Lectures on Hebrew poetry  with the short confutation of Bishop Hare's system of Hebrew metre, as among Lowth's more important works: 'He was an accomplished and elegant scholar, well versed in Hebrew, and with a keen appreciation of the poetic beauty of the Old Testament scriptures. Hebrew was, he believed, the language spoken in Paradise; he studied it critically, and his knowledge of it gained him a European reputation'.

The DNB entry for Francis Hare states that 'In 1736 Hare published an edition of the Psalms in Hebrew. Dr. Richard Grey, in the preface to his 'Hebrew Grammar' declares that it restores the text in several places to its original beauty. But Hare's theoryof Hebrew versification was ably confuted by Lowth in 1766, and feebly defended by Thomas Edwards'.

'Imprimatur, J. Browne, Vice-Can. Oxon. Feb. 1. 1753' on verso of title-page; the 'Oratio Inauguralis' has caption and running title: 'De Poeticae Fine et Utilitate'.

ESTC3270L3 [under Lowth]; ESTC764H5 [under Hare].
Table of contents: value: Contains, after title-page and preceding the xxxi 'Praelectiones', dedication to Henry Legge and 'Praefatio'.