Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
William Cowper
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Standard Name: Cowper, William
Indexed Name: Cowper, William,, 1731 - 1800
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | In Mansfield Park the heroine is a Romantic in her sensibilities: an admirer of Cowper
, passionately devoted to her brother, stoical in her endurance of cold but vividly alive to the suffering of others... |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
draws on Hannah More
, her niece Lucy Aikin
, and (anonymously) Joanna Baillie
. She is even-handed in that she includes six excerpts from James Fordyce
's Sermons to Young Women, a... |
Textual Features | Patricia Beer | There are fourteen new poems, plus the remarkable dedication, entitled To the Same, a sonnet which sets out from the poet's early admiration for a poem of this title by William Cowper
. I... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bentley | 1,935 copies of the book were subscribed for. Names on the list include those of BluestockingsElizabeth Carter
and Hester Mulso Chapone
, William Cowper
, and a number of those men who later wrote... |
Textual Features | Susanna Blamire | Critic Jonathan Wordsworth
takes On the Dangerous Illness of my Friend Mrs. L. as exemplying SB
's keen awareness of new developments that affect her art, since its personal ruminative style is inspired by William Cowper |
Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | CB
was praised for this volume both in Blackwood's (her publisher's own journal) and in the London Quarterly Review. |
Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | John Wilson
's review for Blackwood's, March 1837, deemed the title poem an autobiography of the childhood of Genius. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 123 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More
's Coelebs... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The title piece is a lyrical drama depicting, largely in the form of a conversation between two angels, the crucifixion of Christ. Among the accompanying pieces were several on literary personages or topics: To Mary Russell Mitford |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press
, with a quotation from Francis Bacon
on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare
, Swift
, Prior
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, Edward Young |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Cambridge | The Author's Introduction is followed by one hundred short poems divided into two sections, which variously treat the central themes of mortality, impermanence, or the saving grace of Christianity. The poems are predominantly but not... |
Residence | Mary Collyer | Before their financial difficulties the family were living in Ludgate Street. Culshaw, Geoff. Geoff’s Genealogy. http://www.geoffsgenealogy.co.uk/index.htm. |
Textual Production | Harriet Corp | The title-page lists booksellers involved in this project at Bradford and Leeds. There was an edition at Philadelphia the same year. The title-page quotes Cowper
. An advertisement says this two-volume work had already... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | It opens with England, with all thy faults I love thee still!—a quotation not from Byron
's Beppo, which lay still two years in the future, but from Cowper
's The Task (whence... |
Literary responses | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper
and Walter Scott
, as well as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Mary Berry |
Timeline
1779: William Cowper and John Newton published...
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1779
By August 1785: William Cowper published The Task, his meditative-didactic...
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By August 1785
William Cowper
published The Task, his meditative-didactic poem in six books. Writing it was a task set before him by his friend Lady Austen
.
By September 1791: William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson,...
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By September 1791
William Cowper
published, with Joseph Johnson
, his blank-versetranslations of Homer
's Iliad and Odyssey: a version designed to supersede Pope
's translation in heroic couplets.
Between May 1803 and 1804: William Cowper's Life and Posthumous Writings...
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Between May 1803 and 1804
William Cowper
's Life and Posthumous Writings were published in three volumes.
June-July 1919: People first flew in large numbers, not as...
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June-July 1919
People first flew in large numbers, not as continent-bound travellers but as joy-riders.
1969: Helen Foley published The Bright Designs,...
Women writers item
1969
Helen Foley
published The Bright Designs, a novel (whose title appears to be drawn from William Cowper
's popular hymn God Moves in a Mysterious Way).
Texts
Cowper, William. The Correspondence of William Cowper. Editor Wright, Thomas, Haskell House, 1969.