Robert Southey, The Life of William Cowper

This volume reproduces the full biography from the Robert Southey's 1836 Life and Works of William Cowper. Comprehensive critical apparatus written by Southey scholar Tim Fulford will assist the reader in making sense of the major issues posed by the text and consider how it contributes to studies of Southey, Cowper and Romanticism. This title will be of great interest to students and scholars of literary history.

Tim Fulford is an experienced editor of Southey's poetry and prose, and also a critic and historian of the politics of Romantic writers, including Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Abbreviations, People, 1. Editorial Introduction 2. Robert Southey's Life of Cowper, Index