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John Buxton, Editor Poems of Charles Cotton
Very Good/Good 1958 Harvard University Press Hardback, The Muses' Library, 4 ¼ x 6 11/16 x 13/16in/10.8 x 17.0 x 2.1cm, Top Slightly/Bottom (S)Lightly Cocked, Corners Slightly Worn/Tops Slightly Bumped/Bottoms Little Bumped/Bent, Dark Blue Boards/Spine/Orangish Gold Gilt/Boards Little Light Rubbing/Bottom Outside Corners As Already Noted Little Bumped/Bent/Back 1 Very Small Light Dot/Top Edge 1 Spot Little+ Indented/Spine Lightly Scuffed/Top Lightly Bumped/Worn/Pressed Down/Bottom Same But Little More Bumped/Indented, Page Edges Little/Some Light Discoloring/Spots/Outsides 1 Tiny Dot/Page Edges Like Pages Themselves Lightly/Little Age-Toned, Pastedowns/Flys Few Tiny Dots/Back Fly 1 Little Larger Grayish One/Inside Few Tiny/Very Small Dots/Spots/Some Beginning Pages Top Margins At Edge Thin Line Lightly Bumped/Bent Else Inside Tight + Clean, DJ Good Only/Light Rubbing/Darkening/Number Of Chips/Tear/Frays/Etc./Front Top Right Corner (About ½ Of Top 1/3) Gone/Spine Sunned/Spine Top/Bottom Tape Repaired, General Contents: Critical Comments; The Country Scene; Epistles And Elegies; Love Poems; Drinking Songs And Burlesques; Old Age, Poverty, Content; Notes; Index Of First Lines, Rest Of Contents Too Long To List Here But Available Upon Request, Please Email, From Front Overleaf: Charles Cotton (1630-1687) Is Now Remembered Especially For His Share In One Of The Most Famous Books In The Language, The Compleat Angler. Cotton Used To Entertain His Friend Izaak Walton At His Country House In Dovedale Where He Built The Little Fishing-House Adorned With The Interlaced Monogram Of Their Initials. He Was, As He Said, ‘An Old-Fashioned Country Squire’ Who Played His Full Part In The Life Of The Counties Of Derbyshire And Staffordshire On Whose Borders He Lived; Who Delighted In Fishing The Beautiful River That Flowed Past His Home; And Who There Kept Open House For His Many Friends. In Poems Addressed To Them He Reveals The Tastes Of A Country Gentleman And The Gifts Of A True Poet. PP As A Poet He Was Best Known Until The End Of The Eighteenth Century For His Burlesque On Virgil, But He Also Wrote A Large Number Of Shorter Poems, From Which The Present Selection Has Been Drawn. They Were Collected After His Death, But The Poet’s Son, Beresford Cotton, Rightly Complained Of The Slipshod Edition That Was Printed Without Reference To The Cotton Family. Yet This Has Hitherto Remained The Basis For Any Reprint Of Cotton’s Poems. The Present Editor Has For The First Time Made Use Of A Manuscript Of The Poems Transcribed For Some Of His Derbyshire Friends At The Time When They Were Written. It Is Thus Possible At Last To Present A Text Of Cotton’s Poems As He Wrote Them., Keywords: Cotton, Charles Cotton, Poems, Poetry, English Poetry, Literature, English Literature, 17th Century English Poetry, 17th Century English Literature, CLT00178
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