Select Works of Edmund Burke: Letters on a Regicide Peace

by Edmund Burke, Francis Canavan (Editor)

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 3 presents Burke’s Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France ―generally styled Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795–1796). The Letters , Payne believed, deserve to “rank even before [Burke’s] Reflections , and to be called the writer’s masterpiece.” Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne’s notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords and a biographical note on Payne. Francis Canavan (1917–2009) was Professor of Political Science at Fordham University from 1966 until his retirement in 1988.

Genres: Politics, History

445 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1999

About the author

After A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful , aesthetic treatise of 1757, Edmund Burke, also noted Irish British politician and writer, supported the cause of the American colonists in Parliament but took a more conservative position in his Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790.

Edmund Burke, an Anglo statesman, author, orator, and theorist, served for many years in the House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. People remember mainly the dispute with George III, great king, and his leadership and strength. The latter made Burke to lead figures, dubbed the "old" faction of the Whig against new Charles James Fox. Burke published a work and attempted to define triggering of emotions and passions in a person. Burke worked and founded the Annual Register, a review. People often regard him as the Anglo founder.

Reviews

[Jeremy Egerer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Burke's impassioned case to continue war with post-revolutionary France -- beginning with some of the purest language ever written in England and some of the finest maxims in political history... all nearly lost in a sea of antiquated anti-Republican, pro-monarchist invective. Way too many irrelevant pages to be considered a masterpiece, but too many merits to consider it a waste of time.