Oxford University Press
The Poems of John Cleveland
Edited by
BRIAN MORRIS,
University of York; and
ELEANOR WITH–
INGTON,
Queens College, New York.
This edition, appearing nearly
fifty
years after Saintsbury's celebrated
Caroline Poets,
supplies a critical text of
the poems, based on new discoveries in print and manuscript. Eight new
poems are claimed as Cleveland's and the canon and the transmission of
the printed texts are re-established. The edition contains an extensive
commentary and critical introduction.
(Oxford English Texts.)
$6.75
Wordsworth
A'
PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH
By
MELVIN RADER,
University of Washington at Seattle.
This book ex–
amines the fundamental ideas underlying Wordsworth's poetry, relating
his thought to the vicissitudes of his life, to the influence of his friendship
with Coleridge and to the major traditions of philosophy. Focusing al–
most exclusively on the poetry written from 1797 to 1807, the author
traces the internal coherence in the total body of this work, demonstrating
its philosophical sources and affinities.
$6.10
A Discourse of the Contests
and Dissentions Between the Nobles
and the Commons in Athens and Rome
WITH THE CONSEQUENCES THEY HAD
UPON BOTH THOSE STATES
By
JONATHAN SWIFT;
edited by
FRANK H. ELLIS,
Smith College.
Swift's first satire and first published work was an allegory of English
history at the tum of the eighteenth century, managed wholly in terms of
Greek and Roman analogues. Professor Ellis' text with explanatory notes
enables the modem reader to see how political events were incorporated
into a sophisticated and timely satire. 4
illustrations.
$8.00
John Donne: Selected Prose
Edited by
EVELYN SIMPSON ; HELEN GARDNER,
Oxford University;
and
TIMOTHY HEALY,
Fordham University.
A varied selection of
Donne's prose works, including
Paradoxes and Problem's, Bianthanatos,
Pseudo-Martyr, Essays in Divinity, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasiom,
L etters,
and
Sermons,
are here presented with few emendations of the
original texts. Lovers of Donne's poetry will find many passages that
illuminate or parallel poems and will thus gain a fuller understanding of
his mind and temperament. 2
halftones.
$8.80
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