William Cowper

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

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...

Five hundred of JCM 's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library (MS...

She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton and William Cowper (as edited by Robert Southey ), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on...

SW takes steps to prevent the cause of slavery entirely dominating her work, which, she announces, it will be devoted to the cause of suffering animals as well as to that of suffering men.

This includes poems on Elizabeth Heyrick , William Cowper , and Sir Walter Scott , A Prayer: for the Slaves, Delicacy: Inscribed to the Ladies, several of natural description, and yet others on...

DW does not write as a promoter. To her the Fens as a whole—including the Norfolk marsh-land—are dismally uninspiring from a scenic point of view. She has no romantic illusions about pastoral life:...

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