Poetical Works: Cowper (Oxford Standard Authors)

Literature & Fiction

Cowper, WIlliam

H. S. Milford (Ed. )

History & Criticism

Oxford Standard Authors

When completed, this edition will contain about 1300 letters, 1000 of which will be printed from the original MSS. About two-thirds of the letters will contian material that has hitherto been unpublished.

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 1: Adelphi and Letters 1750-1781

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Oxford University Press

A scholarly edition of poems by William Cowper. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The Poems of William Cowper: Volume I: 1748-1782 (Oxford English Texts)

Poetry

Clarendon Press

These volumes complete the Oxford English Texts edition of Cowper's poems, and include most of his finest works, from such frequently anthologized short poems as "The Poplar-Field" and "The Retired Cat" to such longer works as "The Cast-Away." Volume II also contains his masterpiece, The Task: a reflection on his own life and the England of his day, and one of the most approachable of the great English poems.

The Poems of William Cowper: Volume II: 1782-1785 (Oxford English Texts)

British & Irish

When completed, this edition will contain about 1300 letters, 1000 of which will be printed from the original MSS. About two-thirds of the letters will contain material that has hitherto been unpublished.

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 2: Letters 1782-1786 (Letters & Prose Writings of William Cowper)

When completed, this edition will contain about 1300 letters, 1000 of which will be printed from the original MSS. About two-thirds of the letters will contain material that has hitherto been published.

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 3: Letters 1787-1791 (Letters & Prose Writings of William Cowper)

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 4: Letters 1792-1799 (Letters & Prose Writings of William Cowper)

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.

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 5: Prose 1756-1798 and Cumulative Index

These volumes complete the Oxford English Texts edition of Cowper's poems, and include most of his finest works, from much-anthologized short poems like "The Poplar-Field" and "The Retired Cat" to longer works such as "The Cast-Away."

The Poems of William Cowper: Volume III: 1785-1800 (Oxford English Texts)

The letters of William Cowper (1731-1800) are renowned for their seemingly effortless spontaneity, intimacy, and delicacy. William Blake said of them, "Certainly, the very best letters that ever were published." This book selects letters from every part of his life and give insight into the workings of his suicidal mind, desolate in its conviction of total abandonment by God. As a whole, the letters reveal Cowper's extraordinary skill as a writer of letters, his personality in all its guises, his deep-seated commitment to friendship, his fine critical sensiblility, and his interest in landscape, gardens, pets, and ordinary village lives and events. All the letters are printed in complete form, following the texts of the editors' acclaimed five-volume edition.

William Cowper: Selected Letters

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