William Cowper: Selected PoemsThe poems of William Cowper (1731-1800) are best known outside their literary context, as hymns or half-remembered popular ballads. This selection reveals the qualities that have made Cowper's work enduringly loved: his gentle humor and detailed, delighted observations of the incidentals of everyday life, his intimate, conversational tone, his spiritual hunger. Beneath Cowper's quiet gratitude for everyday pleasures, though, is a darker sense of loss, a longing for stability and calm. His sense of the healing and life-affirming power of poetry gives them a profound humanity. Nick Rhodes' selection includes the finest of the short poems and substantial extracts from Cowper's longer works, including The Task, the poem from which the Romantic poets took their bearings. |
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Selected Poems William Cowper Nick Rhodes. WILLIAM COWPER Selected Poems EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK RHODES FB SELECTED POEMS WILLIAM COWPER was born in Hertfordshire in 1731. Front Cover.
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Selected Poems William Cowper Nick Rhodes. WILLIAM COWPER Selected Poems Edited with an introduction by NICK RHODES ROUTLEDGE New York Published in USA and Canada in 2003 by Routledge 29.
Selected Poems William Cowper Nick Rhodes. CONTENTS Introduction . . . 7 Select Bibliography .21 On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture out of Norfolk . .23 from Conversation .. .26 from Retirement . .27 from Olney Hymns ( 1771-1772 ) 1 ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
21 | |
from Retirement | 27 |
from Olney Hymns 17711772 | 33 |
On the Loss of The Royal George | 40 |
On the Death of Mrs Throckmortons Bullfinch | 51 |
The Colubriad | 57 |
To The Nightingale | 64 |
To Mary | 74 |
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William Cowper: Selected Poetry and Prose William Cowper,David Lyle Jeffrey No preview available - 2006 |