Cowper: Poetry & ProseClarendon Press, 1960 - 196 pages |
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... describe a piece of shell - work as well as any modern poet : but he could not describe the New Jerusalem so well as John Bunyan ; -nor are his verses on Alexander Selkirk so good as Robinson Crusoe . The one is not so much like a ...
... describe a piece of shell - work as well as any modern poet : but he could not describe the New Jerusalem so well as John Bunyan ; -nor are his verses on Alexander Selkirk so good as Robinson Crusoe . The one is not so much like a ...
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... describe what they see around them , to describe its natura naturans , to delineate its natura naturata , to evolve its productive agencies , to pursue their subtle ramifications . Complete , as the most characteristic specimen of this ...
... describe what they see around them , to describe its natura naturans , to delineate its natura naturata , to evolve its productive agencies , to pursue their subtle ramifications . Complete , as the most characteristic specimen of this ...
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... describe not only the bare inanimate outward object which others see , but likewise the reflected high - wrought feelings which that object excites in a brooding self - conscious mind . His subject was not so much nature , as nature ...
... describe not only the bare inanimate outward object which others see , but likewise the reflected high - wrought feelings which that object excites in a brooding self - conscious mind . His subject was not so much nature , as nature ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
HAZLITT ON COWPER | 11 |
BAGEHOT ON COWPER | 17 |
Copyright | |
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affectionately ALEXANDER SELKIRK appearance beauties blank verse Bodham Brougham Castle called charms cheerful Cousin dearest delight delineation doubt Dunciad East Dereham English ev'ry excitement eyes fancy favour feel FĂȘte ChampĂȘtre Gayhurst genius gentle give hand happy Hayley heard heart Homer honour humour John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL knew Lady Austen LADY HESKETH Olney laugh least letter live Lord lov'd Mary melancholy mind Monthly Review morning mother Muse natura naturata nature never night o'er once Oxford Cowper pass perhaps person Pertenhall Pindus pleasure poem poet poetry Pope praise retirement rhyme scene seems shine side smile sofa soon Southampton spirit suppose sweet Task tell thee things thou thought Throckmorton Tibullus tion translation truth W. C. TO LADY walk Westminster Weston William Cowper WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN wish write written