William Cowper

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 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...

Before their financial difficulties the family were living in Ludgate Street. The business must have done well at one time, since they had a house in Islington (regarded by contemporaries like William Cowper as...

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...

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...

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...