The Poems of William Cowper: Volume II: 1782-1785Clarendon Press, 1980 - 484 من الصفحات This volume includes some of Cowper's finest works, among them such well-known short poems as `The Poplar-Field', `Epitaph on a Hare', `On the Loss of the Royal George' (here restored to the form in which Cowper wrote it, and accompanied by the music for which it was written), and `The Diverting History of John Gilpin' which, two years after its first anonymous publication in a newspaper, suddenly achieved huge popularity in a series of public readings. It also contains Cowper's masterpiece, The Task - one of the most approachable of the great English poems. Cowper's blank verse is a supple instrument, capable of every effect, from the parody-georgic on the growing of cucumbers to the visionary conclusion of Book VI. At the centre of the poem stands the poet himself, presented with wry humour and deep poignancy. The texts are based on manuscripts as well as early editions of the poetry, and are supplied with textual annotation and commentary. In the case of The Task, this is the first fully annotated edition for over a hundred years; its commentary relates the poem to the period in which it was written more fully than any previous edition. |
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... Unwin on 10 October 1784.2 The MS . consisted of ' 4 quires ' ; that is , of four sets of twenty - five sheets , each folded to give fifty leaves . Cowper regularly wrote on versos only , numbering them as ' pages ' ; thus his four ...
... Unwin on 10 October 1784.2 The MS . consisted of ' 4 quires ' ; that is , of four sets of twenty - five sheets , each folded to give fifty leaves . Cowper regularly wrote on versos only , numbering them as ' pages ' ; thus his four ...
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... Unwin that he had recently sent to the GM a poem ' on a Rose bud , the neck of which I inadvertently broke ' . Two years later , Lady Hesketh wrote to enquire whether the poem were his , for a lady in London had claimed to be the author ...
... Unwin that he had recently sent to the GM a poem ' on a Rose bud , the neck of which I inadvertently broke ' . Two years later , Lady Hesketh wrote to enquire whether the poem were his , for a lady in London had claimed to be the author ...
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... Unwin of 12 July 1784 announces that the friendship has been terminated . 1 . 1013 . Cf. Isa . 32 : 13 . 1. 1024. In his letter to Unwin of 20 October 1784 Cowper notes with respect to p . 187 of his manuscript : ' I thank you for ...
... Unwin of 12 July 1784 announces that the friendship has been terminated . 1 . 1013 . Cf. Isa . 32 : 13 . 1. 1024. In his letter to Unwin of 20 October 1784 Cowper notes with respect to p . 187 of his manuscript : ' I thank you for ...
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