William Cowper

CB was praised for this volume both in Blackwood's (her publisher's own journal) and in the London Quarterly Review. Writing in 1840, Henry Nelson Coleridge called the title piece a beautiful little poem in...

John Wilson 's review for Blackwood's, March 1837, deemed the title poem an autobiography of the childhood of Genius. A few years laterHenry Nelson Coleridge (husband of Sara Coleridge ), writing in...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...