William Cowper
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Standard Name: Cowper, William
Indexed Name: Cowper, William,, 1731 - 1800
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Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Cambridge | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Parker | After this the tide of MAP
's description begins to turn. Notwithstanding the general appearance of the natives, I never felt the least fear when in their company, being always with a party more than... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Tabitha Tenney | Neither the Cumberland episode, nor her father's death, nor her own serious illness brought on by grief, can change Dorcasina. She next fancies that a new servant, John Brown, is a lover in disguise. (The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | She goes on to quote Johnson
, Cowper
, Emerson
(with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
(a passage about communion... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Robinson | It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young
, Thomas Gray
, and Edward Young
, as well as... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Leadbeater | This work draws on her diary, and gives a lively picture of local life at Ballitore over nearly sixty years (ending in 1823). She goes into some detail about her family and her early memories... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | The title-page quotes Langhorne
and the first chapter-heading William Cowper
. Despite its related material, this story is more bland than The Cousins. The hero, Walsingham, appears in England as the ward of Sir... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare
or Cowper
. This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | The title-page again quotes Cowper
. This novel treats, in realistic style, a number of hot issues: sense and sensibility, the importance of marriage choice, and female financial dependence on male relatives who tend to... |
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