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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... poem in blank verse about the sofa , which occupies only the first hundred of more than five thousand lines . The Task is presented by its author not as an occasional poem , but as an accidental one . It came into existence not to ...
... poem in blank verse about the sofa , which occupies only the first hundred of more than five thousand lines . The Task is presented by its author not as an occasional poem , but as an accidental one . It came into existence not to ...
الصفحة 339
... poem was written with ' inconceivable rapidity ' in October and November 1784 , then that these words must have been added in the course of a revisal ' of a poem begun earlier ( i . 135-7 ) . His second conjecture may be right , or the ...
... poem was written with ' inconceivable rapidity ' in October and November 1784 , then that these words must have been added in the course of a revisal ' of a poem begun earlier ( i . 135-7 ) . His second conjecture may be right , or the ...
الصفحة 437
... poem in England . In his letter to Unwin of 4 November 1782 , Cowper gave his permission for the poem to be published , the author's name only being withheld . It appeared in the Public Advertiser , 14 Nov. 1782. It was given further ...
... poem in England . In his letter to Unwin of 4 November 1782 , Cowper gave his permission for the poem to be published , the author's name only being withheld . It appeared in the Public Advertiser , 14 Nov. 1782. It was given further ...
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