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Introduction
Cursory Observations
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EDMOND MALONE

CURSORY

OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

POEMS

ATTRIBUTED TO

THOMAS ROWLEY

(1782)

Introduction by

JAMES M. KUIST

PUBLICATION NUMBER 123

WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

University of California, Los Angeles

1966

GENERAL EDITORS

George Robert Guffey, University of California, LosAngeles

Earl R. Miner, University of California, Los Angeles

Maximillian E. Novak, University of California,Los Angeles

Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

ADVISORY EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

James L. Clifford, Columbia University

Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles

Vinton A. Dearing, University of California,Los Angeles

Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

Everett T. Moore, University of California,Los Angeles

Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark MemorialLibrary

James Sutherland, University College, London

H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California,Los Angeles

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

INTRODUCTION

Edmond Malone’s Cursory Observations was the most timelypublication in the Rowley controversy. His work appeared just as thedebate over the authenticity of the poems attributed to afifteenth-century priest was, after twelve years, entering its mostcrucial phase.

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