Oxford University Press
The Letters of William
and Dorothy Wordsworth
THE EARLY YEARS (1787-1805) SECOND EDITION
Edited by
ERNEST DE SELINCOURT;
revised by
CHESTER L. SHAVER
Oberlin College.
This revision of the late Ernest de Selincourt's
The Early Letter;
of William and Dorothy Wordsworth
contains fifteen letters which he published
in a supplementary volume and forty not previously collected, of which fourteen
are now published for the first time. The text of the first edition has been im–
proved by corrections and additions and by rearranging a few letters which stood
in the wrong chronological order.
$14.40
The Complete Letters of
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
VOLUME III 1752-1762
Edited by
ROBERT HALSBAND,
Columbia University.
The third and final
volume of Lady Mary's complete letters reveals this indomitable lady during the
final decade of her full life. She was sustained until her death by an abundant
vitality, energy, and wit. Concluding this volume are some of the greatest
triumphs of her artistry as a letter writer: her letters to her daughter and the
long series to Sir James Steuart, printed from a newly discovered accurate tran–
script. 4
halftones, index to all three volu,mes.
$13.45
The Poems of Robert Southwell, S.].
Edited by
JAMES H . McDONALD, C.S.C.,
and
NANCY POLLARD BROWN,
Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
This volwne contains all the poems of Robert
Southwell, S.]., that have survived in manuscripts and printed books-all written
during Southwell's six years' service as a priest on the English mission, from
July 1586 to his arrest in June 1592. Begun by the late R ev. James McDonald,
the work has been brought to conclusion by Professor Brown.
(Oxford English
Texts. )
$8.80
Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
VOLUMES III AND IV
Edited by
OSWALD DOUGHTY,
University of Capetown; and
J.
R. WAHL,
University of
th~
Orange Free State.
These letters present a fascinating picture
of London art circles in the Victorian Age, seen through the vivid personality
oC
the poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti from his early days as an art student,
through his association with the Pre-Raphaelite Movement! .his rise to
fa~e,.
his
tortured love life mental breakdown and attempt at SUICide, on to hiS fmal
decline. Many di;tinguished
contemp?~aries
appear in. Rosse!ti's
~orrespo.nden~e,
sometimes seen in dramatic or surpnsmgly unconventIOnal situations which dIS–
play their temperaments more fully than Victorian biographers dared to do.
3 plates. In two volumes, $26.90
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