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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Cowper, by Goldwin SmithThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: CowperAuthor: Goldwin SmithRelease Date: June 29, 2004 [eBook #12772]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COWPER***E-text prepared by Al HainesCOWPERBYGOLDWIN SMITHLondon, 1880CONTENTS.CHAPTER I. Early LifeCHAPTER II. At Huntingdon—The UnwinsCHAPTER III. At Olney—Mr. NewtonCHAPTER IV. Authorship—The Moral SatiresCHAPTER V. The TaskCHAPTER VI. Short Poems and TranslationsCHAPTER VII. The LettersCHAPTER VIII. Close of LifeCOWPER.CHAPTER I.EARLY LIFE.Cowper is the most important English poet of the period between Pope and the illustrious group headed byWordsworth, Byron, and Shelley, which arose out of the intellectual ferment of the European Revolution. As areformer of poetry, who called it back from conventionality to nature, and at the same time as the teacher of a newschool of sentiment which acted as a solvent upon the existing moral and social system, he may perhaps himself benumbered among the precursors of the revolution, though he was certainly the mildest of them all. As a sentimentalisthe presents a faint analogy to Rousseau, whom in natural temperament he somewhat resembled. He was also thegreat poet of the ...
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Title: Cowper Author: Goldwin Smith Release Date: June 29, 2004 [eBook #12772] Language: English
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COWPER***
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Early Life CHAPTER II. At Huntingdon—The Unwins CHAPTER III. At Olney—Mr. Newton CHAPTER IV. Authorship—The Moral Satires CHAPTER V. The Task CHAPTER VI. Short Poems and Translations CHAPTER VII. The Letters CHAPTER VIII. Close of Life
E-text prepared by Al Haines
COWPER BY GOLDWIN SMITH London, 1880
