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Poetry Of Charles Cotton Pack
Paul . Ed(S): Hartle
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Description for Poetry Of Charles Cotton Pack
Multiple copy . This is the first complete edition of the poetry of Charles Cotton (1630-1687), one of the most interesting poets of the mid-seventeenth century, who wrote in many styles and many voices. Paul Hartle draws upon all of the available manuscripts and early printed editions, and unites the different components of Cotton's prolific output. Editor(s): Hartle, Paul. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
This is the first complete edition of the poetry of Charles Cotton (1630-1687), one of the most interesting poets of the mid-seventeenth century. Although better known as translator of Montaigne's Essays and most of all as a fly-fisherman and author of the second part of The Compleat Angler, a classic work which has never been out of print, Cotton's poetry has attracted notice and admiration across the centuries from readers as diverse as Samuel Pepys and William Wordsworth. Celebrated in his lifetime as a poet of rural retirement and author of an immensely successful comical travesty of Virgil's Aeneid, Scarronides ... Read more
This is the first complete edition of the poetry of Charles Cotton (1630-1687), one of the most interesting poets of the mid-seventeenth century. Although better known as translator of Montaigne's Essays and most of all as a fly-fisherman and author of the second part of The Compleat Angler, a classic work which has never been out of print, Cotton's poetry has attracted notice and admiration across the centuries from readers as diverse as Samuel Pepys and William Wordsworth. Celebrated in his lifetime as a poet of rural retirement and author of an immensely successful comical travesty of Virgil's Aeneid, Scarronides ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
896
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1632
Format
Multiple-component retail product
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198123507
SKU
V9780198123507
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Ref
99-4
About Paul . Ed(S): Hartle
Paul Hartle was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and then at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He has a particular interest in the afterlives of the classics and has published widely on the subject. His next project is an account of the presence and perception of Japan in Early Modern British culture.
Reviews for Poetry Of Charles Cotton Pack
In terms of both its textual analysis and its rich explanatory commentary of over six hundred pages, Hartle's edition is an achievement of impressive substance. A complete checking of Hartle's texts against their sources would, of course, involve as much exacting labour as he has expended himself. Suffice it to say that spot-checks against printed sources, together with the general ... Read more