Gray, Christian. Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse. Printed for the author by Oliver and Boyd.
William Cowper
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Standard Name: Cowper, William
Indexed Name: Cowper, William,, 1731 - 1800
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 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 | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | The novel parodies Germaine de Staël
's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope
and Cowper
, but also texts... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Taylor Gilbert | The poems are lively and entertaining, despite a steady the prevalence of accounts of penalties (up to and including death) naturally consequent on bad behaviour. The most famous of Ann's poems in the volume is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Gray | CG
says of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray that she was instructed by the lowliest of the muses to sing of ladies. |
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