THE GREAT LETTERS SERIES
The Selected Letters of
JOHN KEATS
"A model example of what the Great Letters should be. All the important
letters are included and without cuts. . . . Trilling's introduction is, for
its length, one of the best essays on Keats that I have read."
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H.
AUDEN,
ParUsan Review $3.75
Edited with an introduction by
LIONEL TRILLING
The Selected Letters of
WILLIAM COWPER
"The most famous of those that exhibit the sunlit social side of Cowper
have all been included, and to them have been added others . . . that
afford glimpses into that dark, private abyss that he disclosed only to a
few friends.... (The) introduction is profound and luminous."
-Herald Tribune Book Review $3.75
Edited with an introduction by
MARK VAN DOREN
The Selected Letters of
HENRY ADAMS
This volume of more than one hundred of his best letters "might
be
called
'The Intimate Henry Adams'.... Reveals his literary powers
to
an extent
unequaled in his other writings."
-Christian Science Monito"..
"Tart as
alum and economical as Japanese prints, the letters also spill over with
sensuous responses to life."
-Time
$3.75
Edited with an introduction by
NEWTON ARVIN
The Selected Letters of
THOMAS GRAY
Coming June
12. The author of the famous "Elegy" describes in his
letters the story of the slow polishing of his best-known p<>em, and, in
addition, presents intimate and vivid pictures of foreign scenes and of men
and manners. A rich-hued portrait of his time and a remarkable revelation
of personality.
$3.75
Edited with an introduction by
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH
FARRAR, STRAUS AND YOUNG
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