In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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Page 45
... connected with the justified group sensitivity of the Evan- gelicals ; but Cowper's reasons for feeling a conspicuous butt of man's and God's derision , as the mass of his work makes clear , are private and inevitable . It seems to me ...
... connected with the justified group sensitivity of the Evan- gelicals ; but Cowper's reasons for feeling a conspicuous butt of man's and God's derision , as the mass of his work makes clear , are private and inevitable . It seems to me ...
Page 54
... connected with if not deriving from his need to argue his case before authority ( before an angry God ) , supports him in his relations with the world . Its activities , a huge projection of his own sense of uncertainty and terror , are ...
... connected with if not deriving from his need to argue his case before authority ( before an angry God ) , supports him in his relations with the world . Its activities , a huge projection of his own sense of uncertainty and terror , are ...
Page 165
... connected with metre . The beauty of this stanza tempts me to conclude with a principle which ought never to be lost sight of , and which has been my chief guide in all I have said , —namely , that in works of imagina- tion and ...
... connected with metre . The beauty of this stanza tempts me to conclude with a principle which ought never to be lost sight of , and which has been my chief guide in all I have said , —namely , that in works of imagina- tion and ...
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