
Cowper
Goldwin Smith(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 24. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-108-03465-4 (ISBN)
Description
This biography of William Cowper by Goldwin Smith (1823-1910) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1880 (this reissue being from the 'ninth thousand' of 1881). Smith states in his opening chapter that Cowper (1731-1800) 'is the most important English poet of the period between Pope and the illustrious group headed by Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley ... he may perhaps himself be numbered among the precursors of the Revolution, though he was certainly the mildest of them all'. He also regards Cowper as the great poet of the religious revival of the eighteenth century. Smith himself was an Oxford-educated historian who wrote for the Saturday Review among other periodicals. He was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1858, and later taught at Cornell University, before settling in Canada, where he wrote widely on historical, constitutional and religious topics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-03465-4 (9781108034654)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Early life; 2. At Huntingdon - the Unwins; 3. At Olney - Mr. Newton; 4. Authorship - the moral satires; 5. The task; 6. Short poems and translations; 7. The letters; 8. Close of life.