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The Civil War
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Series: Heritage
Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
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ISBN10: 1442639431
ISBN13: 9781442639430
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1973
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781442639430
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1973
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Civil War is a poem which Abraham Cowley (1618-67) did
not complete, for political and historical reasons, and of which only the first volume was published; the other two volumes have been considered irrecoverably lost since Cowley's death. Professor Pritchard recently found two copies of the complete poem in a collection of family papers at the Hertfordshire County Record Office and here presents a corrected edition of the first and previously published book, and the text of the hitherto unpublished books two and three.The poem
is a major addition to the body of Cowley's poetry; it has close and sometimes surprising connections with much of his other work. It is not only the most extended and important of his political poems but a significant addition to the genre of the political poem. It is also unique as the attempt by a poet of stature to give epic treatment to the events of the English Civil War.Professor Pritchard provides
a discussion of the personal, historical, and literary contexts of the poem in the introduction, as well as of textual problems and methods, showing the way in which the poem is shaped both by contemporary history and polemics and by classical and later literary tradition.Also in
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