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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الصفحة 79
... mean retreat for ever dear , For all I love , my soul's delight is here . I see th ' Almighty swath'd in infant bands , Tied helpless down the Thunderbearer's hands , And in this shed that Mystery discern , Which Faith and Love , and ...
... mean retreat for ever dear , For all I love , my soul's delight is here . I see th ' Almighty swath'd in infant bands , Tied helpless down the Thunderbearer's hands , And in this shed that Mystery discern , Which Faith and Love , and ...
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... means since first he made the world , And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less 200 Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for his use , and ready at his will ? Go , dress thine eyes with eye ...
... means since first he made the world , And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less 200 Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for his use , and ready at his will ? Go , dress thine eyes with eye ...
الصفحة 432
... mean , and no attention so servile , but he is ready to pay them with alacrity , in accomplishing the important object of forming connections . The mind is rendered , by these means , low and abject ; and though the boy may afterwards ...
... mean , and no attention so servile , but he is ready to pay them with alacrity , in accomplishing the important object of forming connections . The mind is rendered , by these means , low and abject ; and though the boy may afterwards ...
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