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Book Reviews B OO K R EVIEWS [ Due to a production error, the first page of the following book review was miss- ing in Issue 5.1/2. The review is here published in its entirity with apologies to the author. ] Cowper, William. The Centenary Letters . Ed. and intro. Simon Malpas. Manchester, England: Carcanet Press, 2000. Pp. xxi + 162. £12.95 paper. T he year 2000 marks the bicentennial of the death of William Cowper (1731-1800), hence the title of this selection of 117 letters from his voluminous correspondence. Simon Malpas joins a line of distinguished editors of Cowper’s letters, among whom was Sir James George Frazer of The Golden Bough fame, who published an edition in 1912. The “Complete Letters” (numbering over 1,400) can be found in the five volumes of Oxford University Press’s The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper (1979-1986). There is much pleasure, however, in owning a pocket book selection of Cowper’s letters. Here I am reminded of the wife in Cowper’s well-known poem, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin,” who “though on pleasure she was bent / She had a frugal mind.” In a well-written introduction, Simon Malpas places Cowper in his day http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

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Religion and the Arts , Volume 5 (4): 509 – Jan 1, 2001
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Brill
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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1079-9265
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1568-5292
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10.1163/156852901317289788
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B OO K R EVIEWS [ Due to a production error, the first page of the following book review was miss- ing in Issue 5.1/2. The review is here published in its entirity with apologies to the author. ] Cowper, William. The Centenary Letters . Ed. and intro. Simon Malpas. Manchester, England: Carcanet Press, 2000. Pp. xxi + 162. £12.95 paper. T he year 2000 marks the bicentennial of the death of William Cowper (1731-1800), hence the title of this selection of 117 letters from his voluminous correspondence. Simon Malpas joins a line of distinguished editors of Cowper’s letters, among whom was Sir James George Frazer of The Golden Bough fame, who published an edition in 1912. The “Complete Letters” (numbering over 1,400) can be found in the five volumes of Oxford University Press’s The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper (1979-1986). There is much pleasure, however, in owning a pocket book selection of Cowper’s letters. Here I am reminded of the wife in Cowper’s well-known poem, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin,” who “though on pleasure she was bent / She had a frugal mind.” In a well-written introduction, Simon Malpas places Cowper in his day

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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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