William Cowper: Selected Poems (Fyfield Books) (Paperback)

by William Cowper (Author) "Oh, that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last..." (more)
Key Phrases: poems edited, John Gilpin

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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.

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415969417
• ISBN-13: 978-0415969413
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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