In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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Page 13
... poet's personal condition ; indeed , with Cowper's poetic personality , as with Whitman's and Tennyson's and Arnold's , biographical information is essential for full effectiveness . In view of the mental illness which so strongly ...
... poet's personal condition ; indeed , with Cowper's poetic personality , as with Whitman's and Tennyson's and Arnold's , biographical information is essential for full effectiveness . In view of the mental illness which so strongly ...
Page 38
... poet's greatness , is , as is usual with him , complex and ambivalent ; he mis- trusts it elsewhere and , though yearning for its consequence , poetic stature , everywhere complains that even greatness as a poet is vanity . The very ...
... poet's greatness , is , as is usual with him , complex and ambivalent ; he mis- trusts it elsewhere and , though yearning for its consequence , poetic stature , everywhere complains that even greatness as a poet is vanity . The very ...
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... poet , are more sterilely concerned with the minutiae of technique than any Augus- tan critic's : one can , with poetic license , change the stress of words , but one should never , never alter grammar ; the art of varying the emphasis ...
... poet , are more sterilely concerned with the minutiae of technique than any Augus- tan critic's : one can , with poetic license , change the stress of words , but one should never , never alter grammar ; the art of varying the emphasis ...
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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