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The Letters and Prose Writings: II: Letters 1782-1786

William Cowper author James King editor Charles Ryskamp editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:4th Jun '81

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A scholarly edition of letters and prose writings by William Cowper. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A model of editorial tact, thoroughness, and clarity. Not only does it greatly enlarge the canon of Cowper's prose, it provides at every point, unobtrusively and economically, exactly what the reader needs: a chronology of Cowper's life at the beginning of each volume, brief introductory characterizations of the volume as a whole and of Cowper's individual correspondents during the relevant period, precise textual information, concise annotation, lists of letters included and of those known to be missing, a fine index...indispensable. * Patricia Meyer Spacks, Journal of English and German Philology *
A model of editorial tact, thoroughness, and clarity. Not only does it greatly enlarge the canon of Cowper's prose, it provides at every point, unobtrusively and economically, exactly what the reader needs: a chronology of Cowper's life at the beginning of each volume, brief introductory characterizations of the volume as a whole and of Cowper's individual correspondents during the relevant period, precise textual information, concise annotation, lists of letters included and of those known to be missing, a fine index...indispensable. * Patricia Meyer Spacks, Journal of English and German Philology *

ISBN: 9780198126072

Dimensions: 236mm x 164mm x 53mm

Weight: 1140g

680 pages