SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus reformatted.* Impression: 1st. * Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Soft colour illustrated card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to covers. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Seems very little used if at all. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 114 pp. text. xii pp. notes, advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- William Cowper (1731-1800) is one of those rare writers whose poems we come effortlessly to know by heart, so deeply in his work enmeshed with the language of our recreation and devotion. The Olney Hymns (?Oh for a closer walk with God? and ?God moves in a mysterious way?, for example), the ballad of John Gilpin, the poems to his leverets, ?Alexander Selkirk?, ?On the Loss of The Royal George? and many other well loved pieces are his. So too is the long and deeply entertaining poem The Task, a work from which the great Romantic poets took their bearings.* This is a FINE copy with absolutely minimal shelf wear.* 1984-01-01.

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Title

Selected Poems

Publisher

Fyfield Books

Publication Date

1984

Language

English

ISBN 10

0856354147

ISBN 13

9780856354144

Binding

Paperback

Edition

y First Edition

Condition

F/ F/ND

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