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...

The Critical Review approved the poem, but remarked that amelioration might do as well as abolition as a means of addressing the abuses it describes. On 16 February 1788William Cowper recorded...

The Critical Review, quoting several poems in full, equally approved JT 's lively facility and her graver moral style,and diagnosed the influence of Cowper . In 1925 E. V. Lucas

Once an omnivorous reader, HM restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. From...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...