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Rescuing the castaway: the case of William Cowper.(Literature)
WHEN SOMEONE remarks that variety is the spice of life or claims to be monarch of all they survey; when they joke about tobacco being a pernicious weed or cry drunkenly, "England, with all thy faults, I love thee still", before moving on to cups that cheer but not inebriate and lamenting the fact that their wife moves in mysterious ways--they are quoting William Cowper. Until very recently, lines by Cowper (pronounced Cooper) whose sad life spanned the last three quarters of the eighteenth century, made up one of the bulkiest entries in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Before Wordsworth came along (himself a great fan) Cowper was one of the most popular poets ...
- Cowper's 'Task' and the writing of a poet's salvation. (discussion of The Task...
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Heller, Deborah June 22, 1995 700+ words
...Albans Asylum for the Insane, William Cowper underwent a conversion to Calvinist...the Gospel."l In this episode Cowper emphasizes the miraculous and...tumbling down. In the case of William Cowper, it did indeed come tumbling...
- William Cowper's gypsies.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Houghton-Walker, Sarah June 22, 2008 700+ words
...Nature's works far lovelier," William Cowper narrates an encounter with a group...criticism, but close attention to Cowper's text at this point is revealing...generally. The gypsy as it is drawn by Cowper brings together these themes, but...
- Hope and Despair in the Writings of William Cowper.
- Magazine article from: Social Research PACKER, BARBARA June 22, 1999 700+ words
...writings of the 18th century poet William Cowper (1731--1800) offer an especially...hope gives way again to despair. Cowper is not, of course, the first...at restored health and sanity. William Cowper was born in 1731 to a distinguished...
- "Meaner themes": mock-heroic and providentialism in Cowper's poetry. (William...
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Terry, Richard June 22, 1994 700+ words
I William Cowper's poetry has traditionally been seen...particular form: mock-heroic. While Cowper's adoption of the form affiliates him...those in Augustan poems of the same kind. Cowper's mock-heroic, unlike that of earlier...
- The hour of our nation's agony; the Civil War letters of Lt. William Cowper...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2008 700+ words
9781572335677 The hour of our nation's agony; the Civil War letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi. Nelson, William Cowper. U. of Tennessee Press 2007 336 pages $48.50 Hardcover Voices of the Civil War E568 This...
- Brann, William Cowper
- Reference information from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger January 1, 1995 700+ words
Brann, William Cowper (1855–98), journalist and lecturer, notorious for his violent, often unconventional treatment of moral and social...
- Lines in William Cowper's Hand Written in the Margins of God's Pleasing...
- Magazine article from: Poetry Savoie, John August 1, 2004 700+ words
LINES IN WILLIAM COWPER'S HAND WRITTEN IN THE MARGINS OF GOD'S PLEASING PROVIDENCE (pp.372-73) IN THE LIBRARY OF JOHN NEWTON Little fly, dost...
- Romanticism and religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2007 700+ words
0754655709 Romanticism and religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens. Ed. by Gavin Hopps and Jane Stabler. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006 262 pages $99.95 Hardcover The nineteenth...
Source: HighBeam Research, Rescuing the castaway: the case of William Cowper.(Literature)