Cowper

By:

Goldwin Smith

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Paperback / softback

Series:

English Men of Letters 39 Volume Set

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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.

Release date Australia

November 24th, 2011

Author

Goldwin Smith

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

144

Series

English Men of Letters 39 Volume Set

Dimensions

140x216x8

ISBN-13

9781108034654

Product ID

18287464

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