William Cowper

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

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Doreen Wallace
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.
Wallace, Doreen. East Anglia. Batsford.
71
She has no romantic illusions about pastoral life:...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susanna Watts
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.
Watts, Susanna. The Humming Bird. I. Cockshaw.
34
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susanna Watts
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...
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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Anne Jevons
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...
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Thomas mentioned three of her previous books on the title-page along with her pseudonym, as had become her custom. She quotes Cowper on her title-page; contrary to her previous practice, she supplies no citations for...
Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
In 1793 CF corresponded with William Cowper 's friend Lady Hesketh , and through her, with Cowper himself. Mary Russell Mitford concurs in calling CF an excellent letter-writer.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley.
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Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
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...
Textual Production Emma Marshall
EM 's next subject was William Cowper , in On the Banks of the Ouse; or, Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago, dated 1888, which actually appeared in November 1887. EM had...
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
Textual Production Frances Jacson
The Chawton House Library copy of this novel is digitally available among their Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The title-page (which quotes Cowper ) gives the date of 1823. Again, the generally-made attribution to Alethea Lewis
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 Susanna Watts
Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...
Textual Features Sappho
They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic...

Timeline

1779: William Cowper and John Newton published...

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1779

William Cowper and John Newton published Olney Hymns.

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,...

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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.