£22.00
Title: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper
Author: H S Milford (Editor)
Publisher : Humphrey Milford-Oxford University Press
Publication 1913
Format: Hardback / Leather
Condition: Blue cloth covers with blue leather to forners and spine. Scuffing to corners and spine with spine quite faded. Pages re clean with no ink or pencil marks. Previous owners presentation inscription to front dated 1919 from Eton College
Book measures: 19cm x 14cm with 671 pages
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This definitive Oxford edition of William Cowper’s poems collects the prolific eighteenth-century English poet’s complete poetical works for the first time. Cowper, known for his contemplative and religious verse, was a contemporary influence on Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge. The Complete Poetical Works includes Cowper’s most beloved works like “The Task”, “John Gilpin”, and “Light Shining Out of Darkness” alongside lesser-known poems, translations, and posthumously published verse. Editor H.S. Milford arranges Cowper’s oeuvre chronologically while providing critical analysis in extensive editorial notes. This authoritative edition preserves Cowper’s poetic legacy, making available his wide-ranging works that meditate on nature, rural life, faith, melancholy, and morality with intelligence and graceful wit.
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