The poems of William Cowper (1731-1800) are best known outside their literary context, as hymns or half-remembered popular ballads. This selection reveals the qualities that have made Cowper's work enduringly loved: his gentle humor and detailed, delighted observations of the incidentals of everyday life, his intimate, conversational tone, his spiritual hunger. Beneath Cowper's quiet gratitude for everyday pleasures, though, is a darker sense of loss, a longing for stability and calm. His sense of the healing and life-affirming power of poetry gives them a profound humanity. Nick Rhodes' selection includes the finest of the short poems and substantial extracts from Cowper's longer works, including "The Task," the poem from which the Romantic poets took their bearings.
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- The Complete Poems (Penguin English Poets) by Andrew Marvell in Back Matter
- Literary Studies by Walter Bagehot in Front Matter
- Poems & Plays Goldsmith (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Olive Goldsmith in Back Matter
- William Cowper: A Critical Life by Maurice James Quinlan in Front Matter
- Collected Poems by William Empson in Back Matter
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