{"product_id":"the-civil-war-9781442639430","title":"The Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Abraham Cowley | Allan Pritchard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/em\u003e is a poem which Abraham Cowley (1618-67) did \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003enot complete, for political and historical reasons, and of which only the first \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003evolume was published; the other two volumes have been considered irrecoverably lost \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esince Cowley's death. Professor Pritchard recently found two copies of the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ecomplete poem in a collection of family papers at the Hertfordshire County Record \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffice and here presents a corrected edition of the first and previously published \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ebook, and the text of the hitherto unpublished books two and three.\u003cp\u003eThe poem \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eis a major addition to the body of Cowley's poetry; it has close and sometimes \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esurprising connections with much of his other work. It is not only the most extended \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand important of his political poems but a significant addition to the genre of the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epolitical poem. It is also unique as the attempt by a poet of stature to give epic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003etreatment to the events of the English Civil War.\u003cp\u003eProfessor Pritchard provides \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ea discussion of the personal, historical, and literary contexts of the poem in the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eintroduction, as well as of textual problems and methods, showing the way in which \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe poem is shaped both by contemporary history and polemics and by classical and \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003elater literary tradition. ","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615473614999,"sku":"9781442639430","price":3331.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781442639430.webp?v=1775101072","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-civil-war-9781442639430","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}