William Cowper

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...

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...

This work quotes Cowper on the title-page. The short stories (genuinely short this time) include A Few Days from My Journal (which opens with Johnson 's well-known remark to Boswell about the pleasure of driving...

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...

On a month-long visit to William Hayley , CS met the poet Cowper , his friend Mary Unwin , and the painter George Romney .

MS was probably a friend from an early age of the dissenting hymn-writer Anne Steele , who lived not very far away and who was a generation older. They spent much time together in 1773...

JCM 's nephew William Cowper the poet, with whom she corresponded, took an interest in her work and was probably the channel through which her poems reached the anthologists Colman and Thornton .

The Cowper family, many of whose male members distinguished themselves in the law and in politics, used a confusing amount of repetition in naming their children in successive generations. Almost a majority of JCM 's...

Sarah Josepha Buell (later SJH ) was taught at home by her mother, with her father and her brother Horatio (then a law student) joining in for such higher branches of learning as writing, Latin...