The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 5: Prose 1756-1798 and Cumulative Index: Prose, 1756-c.1799 and Cum.Index

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 5: Prose 1756-1798 and Cumulative Index: Prose, 1756-c.1799 and Cum.Index

by Charles Ryskamp (Editor), Charles Ryskamp (Editor), James King (Editor), William Cowper (Author)

Synopsis

Comments on earlier volumes William Cowper is one of the very greatest of letter-writers in English.... To read them is to be in touch with a mind of civilised humor and a style of healthy clarity.... The completed set will become an indispensable work of scholarship. --Critical Quarterly. Volume V completes this definitive edition of Cowper's letters and prose. It contains a cumulative index for the set.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 276
Edition: Annotated
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 01 Feb 1992

ISBN 10: 0198126905
ISBN 13: 9780198126904

Media Reviews
'The high standard of scholarship set by the earlier volumes has been sustained to the end, and we now have Cowper's complete prose writings in an edition prepared with exemplary thoroughness and accuracy. ... This will deservedly remain the authoritative edition for a very long time.' Review of English Studies