...Bernard Martin Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 FRESH LIGHT ON WILLIAM COWPER By BERNARDMARTIN i%e Stricken Deer, by Lord David Cecil, is not the only modern biography of William Cowper to enjoy a popular success. Indeed, Cowper seems...

...Zsolt Komáromy Abstract The conversational style of William Cowper’s poetry owes much to the influence of Charles Churchill. Despite this connection, the two poets occupy different niches in literary history: Churchill is remembered as a practitioner of the declining tradition of satirical poetry...

... of nescience, or unknowing, as a way to confront uncertain futures. Drawing on the work of William Cowper and Derek Jarman, it considers the discursive relationship between AIDS activism in the 1980s and the nature poetry of the Romantic period and finds in that relationship a philosophical bond between past...

...Lodwick Hartley Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 COWPER AND THE POLYGAMOUS PARSON By LODWICKHARTLEY One of the most recent critical treatments of William Cowper con- tains the following statement : “When Cowper turned to poetry after...

... are in a state of suspension, he or she asserts the immunity of true belief from translation. Or so Hume tells us. My examples, drawn from Hume, Thomas Warton, William Cowper, and William Hayley, characterize agents and their beliefs in philosophical rather than historical terms, because that is how Hume...

... century the news could be explicitly described as a catalyst for translating social variety into consumable art. William Cowper (1731–1800) was the earliest and most influential adapter of the newspaper to reflective poetry. Traumatically excluded from his early...

.... In retrospect, these disturbances may be seen as disruptions of the Earth system as a whole, figured as increasingly far-reaching in the poems of James Thomson (chap. 2); John Dyer, James Grainger, and Richard Jago (chap. 3); and William Cowper, William Wordsworth, and Charlotte Smith (chap. 4). They include...

... of that year, Anna Seward’s epistolary novel in verse, Louisa. Literary history, as we know it, skips 1784 entirely, its eyes fixed on the publication of The Task the following year. A highly original mix of satire and pastorale, William Cowper’s poem became the most read and most influential...

...). No new methodological or theoretical territory, then, but a kind of criticism that many will find useful, characterizes The Conuerse olthe Pen. Redford’s three diptychs allow him to exercise his familiarity with the lives of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and William Cowper, Thomas Gray...

... three diptychs allow him to exercise his familiarity with the lives of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and William Cowper, Thomas Gray and Horace Walpole, Boswell and Johnson. That familiarity leads in turn to some remarkable (and, yes, new) insights and linkages. His treatment of the effect...

... (editors). That Soueraine Light: Essays in Honor of Edmund Spenser, 1552-1952. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1952. Pp. 133. $3.00. Quinlan, Maurice J. William Cowper : A Critical Life. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1953. Pp. xiii + 251. $4.50. Reade, Aleyn Lyell...

... Klincksieck, Paris, 1979. Gleckner, Robert F. Blake’s Prelude: “Poetical Sketches.” Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. xii + 202 pp. $15.00. Hutchings, Bill. The Poetry of William Cowper. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1983. viii + 246 pp. $25.25. Distributed...

... argued actively for animal rights, they set the groundwork for future claims. Menely then explores this animal voice in the poetry of Alexander Pope, James Thomson, Christopher Smart, and William Cowper. Hunting in Pope’s Windsor Forest , for instance, draws on the discourse of sacrificial violence...

...). Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. Pp. xlvii + 440. $7.50. Ryskamp, Charles. William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq.: A Study of His Life and Works to the Year 1768. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1959. Pp. xviii + 275...

... Analysis of Beauty , and culminating with William Cowper’s Task , this tour de force chapter clears a path for fresh thinking about the aesthetic and philosophical continuities between pre-Romantic and Romantic literary forms. It traces the presence of an “artisanal view” of consciousness as an engaged...

..., Carl H. Shelley’s Eccentricities. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Publications in Language and Literature, No. 5, 1950. Pp. 84. $1.00. Hartley, Lodwick. William Cowper : A List of Critical and Biographical Studies Published from 1895 to 1949. Raleigh : North Carolina State College...

... of “gases,” “vapours,” “effluvia,” or, in sentimental moments, “affections.” As such, it correlated closely with a view of human nature as erratic, hysterical, even tragic. Meteorology’s main subject in this neoclassical outlook was what the poet William Cowper called “portentous, unexampled and unex...

... of the “homosexualized genius” in the works and careers of William Beckford, William Cowper, Anne Bannerman, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anne Damer. Glaringly absent is Byron. Despite Elfenbein’s explanation that he has discussed Byron elsewhere, one misses...

... of the “homosexualized genius” in the works and careers of William Beckford, William Cowper, Anne Bannerman, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anne Damer. Glaringly absent is Byron. Despite Elfenbein’s explanation that he has discussed Byron elsewhere, one misses...

... of the “homosexualized genius” in the works and careers of William Beckford, William Cowper, Anne Bannerman, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anne Damer. Glaringly absent is Byron. Despite Elfenbein’s explanation that he has discussed Byron elsewhere, one misses...