William Cowper

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Standard Name: Cowper, William
Indexed Name: Cowper, William,, 1731 - 1800

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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth B. Lester
This work quotes Cowper on the title-page. The short stories (genuinely short this time) include A Few Days from My Journal (which opens with Johnson 's well-known remark to Boswell about the pleasure of driving...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Taylor Gilbert
The poems are lively and entertaining, despite a steady the prevalence of accounts of penalties (up to and including death) naturally consequent on bad behaviour. The most famous of Ann's poems in the volume is...
Leisure and Society Hannah More
Once an omnivorous reader, HM restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper as a poet whom I can read on Sunday.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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Literary responses Lydia Howard Sigourney
Edgar Allan Poe , reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS did too much borrowing: from Hannah More , William Cowper , William Wordsworth , and Byron . Critic Emily Stipes Watts
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.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Writing in 1840, Henry Nelson Coleridge called the title piece a beautiful little poem in...
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.
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A few years laterHenry Nelson Coleridge (husband of Sara Coleridge ), writing in...
Literary responses Hannah More
The Critical Review approved the poem, but remarked that amelioration might do as well as abolition as a means of addressing the abuses it describes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
65 (1788): 226
On 16 February 1788William Cowper recorded...
Literary responses Jane Taylor
The Critical Review, quoting several poems in full, equally approved JT 's lively facility and her graver moral style,
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
5th ser. 4 (1816): 269
and diagnosed the influence of Cowper . In 1925 E. V. Lucas
Literary responses Mary Robinson
The same year Broadview Press issued her Selected Poems, with four portraits and the illustrations by Maria Cosway , engraved by Caroline Watson , to her poem A Wintry Day. These were followed...
Literary responses Mary Leapor
This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson , Christopher Smart , and the young William Cowper , as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe and Susanna Highmore .
Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
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, pp. 313-43.
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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
Literary responses Mary Leapor
ML was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe 's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper , who...
Material Conditions of Writing Charlotte Smith
She wrote The Old Manor House while staying with a congenial group of friends (including Cowper , William Hayley , and George Romney ). The latter reported, in awed tones, that she would write a...
Material Conditions of Writing Catherine Fanshawe
In 1793, William Cowper 's friend Lady Hesketh sent CF a poem of Cowper's, with the request that she should not copy or circulate it. CF learned it by heart, then sent back the original...
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...

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