The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondance, and Translations, Volumen2

Baldwin & Cradock, 1836

CHAPTER	1

MR NEWTONs expectations of Cowpers perfect recovery	9

Anticipations of ill success	17

Cowper prepared for disappointment if his translation	18

Inconveniences of celebrity as an author	26

Lady Austen suggests the Task	43

State of the poor there	52

Apartments at the vicarage taken for Lady Hesketh	57

Increasing prevalence of blank verse	174

71	179

TRANSLATION OF HOMER	186

He prepares the public for it by an anonymous letter	194

That resolution altered in deference to General Cowper	208

Account of his motives to Mr Newton	215

Cowpers religious opinions confession of indiscreet zeal	223

Lady Heskeths account of their way of life	231

Lady Heskeths arrival	59

Translations from Madame Guyon undertaken at his request	64

Cowper though fond of society capable of living in soli	72

Its extraordinary success	79

His situation with regard to his relations	87

19	95

CHAP XII	109

Of Dryden and Pope	118

Chaucers versification rhythmical	123

Cowper not a reader of poetry	126

Cowpers rash judgement concerning the Lives of the Poets	151

Letter to Mr Newton concerning the change of residence	251

REFLECTIONS On his change of abode	265

Application from the Clerk of All Saints Northampton	283

Friendliness of his neighbours in transcribing for him	294

Improved health	311

His mothers picture sent him by his cousin Mrs Bodham	325

Translates some letters from the Latin of a Dutch clergy	331

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS	349

The art of poetry made easy	355

Masons reason for the structure of his first dramas	361

Specimen of the manner in which Pope corrected his trans	367

Título	The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondance, and Translations, Volumen2 The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondance, and Translations, Cowper
Autor	Cowper
Editor	Baldwin & Cradock, 1836
Procedencia del original	University of Bern
Digitalizado	14 Dic. 2021

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