In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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Page 62
... confusion in which kings live ; " The Progress of Error " begins with the question of what leads man astray , goes ... confused wilderness is a fre- quent image or pattern found in Cowper , that of the traveler and his goal . In a long ...
... confusion in which kings live ; " The Progress of Error " begins with the question of what leads man astray , goes ... confused wilderness is a fre- quent image or pattern found in Cowper , that of the traveler and his goal . In a long ...
Page 77
... confusion and delusion and illusion of man's life could be stabilized only through a sudden attack of divine truth ( a gunshot in a moldering abbey , a brilliant light from the sky , a sudden accession of divine grace ) . He sought the ...
... confusion and delusion and illusion of man's life could be stabilized only through a sudden attack of divine truth ( a gunshot in a moldering abbey , a brilliant light from the sky , a sudden accession of divine grace ) . He sought the ...
Page 130
... confusion for Cowper , a sympa- thetic confusion induced by his temporary stay among man's errors , but he picked his path through them fastidiously . And " Since pulpits fail , " he concludes that satire cannot root out the confusion ...
... confusion for Cowper , a sympa- thetic confusion induced by his temporary stay among man's errors , but he picked his path through them fastidiously . And " Since pulpits fail , " he concludes that satire cannot root out the confusion ...
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ambivalent animals attitude authority blank verse BONNELL THORNTON Calvinist Castaway cause Churchill civilization confusion conspicuous conversion Correspondence corruption Cowper says Cowper wrote Cowper's mind Cowper's preoccupations danger death deluded delusion developed divine earth England ev'ry evangelical evil Expostulation Farncombe father fear freedom friends Garden Gilpin Goldwin Smith grace heaven hope human ideal Inner Temple John Gilpin John Newton Judgment Day least London Madan man's mankind Martin Madan Memoir ment nature never Olney Olney Hymns over-civilization passage passions path peace per's pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Popian Progress of Error proper Quinlan reflection religion retreat Robert Lloyd satire seems society Sofa Spiritual Diary stability storm stricken deer suggest symbol Table Talk Task theme Thomas Wright Time-Piece tion Tirocinium truth Uncollected Letters University Unpublished and Uncollected Unwin verse virtuous vision Walk at Noon William Cowper Winter Morning Walk Winter Walk writes yearning