William Cowper

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...

The same year Broadview Press issued her Selected Poems, with four portraits and the illustrations by Maria Cosway , engraved by Caroline Watson , to her poem A Wintry Day. These were followed...

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...

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...

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic...

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...

An expanded edition as Select Poems, 1845, includes To a Shred of Linen, not a lyric but a poem in blank verse which dramatises through different voices the paradoxes inherent in combining the...

Edgar Allan Poe , reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS did too much borrowing: from Hannah More , William Cowper , William Wordsworth , and Byron . Critic Emily Stipes Watts

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

It carried a dedication, dated 10 May, to Cowper , who had read and revised a draft.

She wrote The Old Manor House while staying with a congenial group of friends (including Cowper , William Hayley , and George Romney ). The latter reported, in awed tones, that she would write a...

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...

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...