...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...

...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...

...Blakey Vermeule Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Blakey Vermeule is assistant professor of English at Yale University. She is writing a book on Hume's science of human nature. Jovial Fanatics: Hume, Warton, Cowper Blakey Vermeule But what greater...

...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...

...: Romanticism, Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding (1990), and, most recently, Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion (1999). MLQ 62.3-02 Ellison 7/12/01 1:17 PM Page 219 News, Blues, and Cowper’s Busy World Julie Ellison he scholarly...

... 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...

... 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...

... A. G. Cowper (SATF; Paris, 1956). We shall cite passages from the Cowper edition, which is based upon the more recently discovered MS W (Wollaton Hall) but which also contains the variants of the standard MS P (Bibl. Nat. fonds franpis 375). 181 182...

... the generic, sometimes the cognitive. She has chosen five poets- Thomson, Collins, Gray, Smart, and Cowper-for their intrinsic value as well as for the differences in the nature of their achievements. She studies the work of each of them in considerable detail in order to show the variety...

.... 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...

... a different kind of autonomy, in which forms—parataxis or catachresis—carry on engagements of their own with the bewildered consent of the writer. Cowper and Keats are Nersessian’s noncautionary examples, but even Wordsworth was scarcely in retreat from “parts of the world that contain the greatest misery...

... (and, by extension, Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones), and on Cibber’s and Pame- la’s sense of “the power of external judgment” (p. 209). On the other hand, there is much to which even the well-disposed reader will not readily assent. I, at least, am not persuaded that there is a contradiction between Cowper’s...

... by limiting himself to five successors of the masters: Gay, Johnson, Churchill, Goldsmith, and Crabbe. Young and Cowper also share a chapter. Such concentration turns up paying ore. The game is obviously not to find who can succeed to the drugget robe of a Flecknoe. It is not even to nominate...

... make of automobile. His exacting gozit also requires that a poetic sensibility exhibit a parallel sensibility in the choice of fish. How could poor Cowper elect to “celebrate a halibut in verse, when there was salmon, trout, turbot, brill, John Dory, mullet, whiting, sole, herring...

... been analyzed, are used principally to furnish points of reference. This structure allows Professor Brown to write a study in technical aesthetics by limiting himself to five successors of the masters: Gay, Johnson, Churchill, Goldsmith, and Crabbe. Young and Cowper also share a chapter...

...). 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...