William Cowper

Neither the Cumberland episode, nor her father's death, nor her own serious illness brought on by grief, can change Dorcasina. She next fancies that a new servant, John Brown, is a lover in disguise. (The...

This work quotes Cowper on the title-page. The short stories (genuinely short this time) include A Few Days from My Journal (which opens with Johnson 's well-known remark to Boswell about the pleasure of driving...

The Author's Introduction is followed by one hundred short poems divided into two sections, which variously treat the central themes of mortality, impermanence, or the saving grace of Christianity. The poems are predominantly but not...

After this the tide of MAP 's description begins to turn. Notwithstanding the general appearance of the natives, I never felt the least fear when in their company, being always with a party more than...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

The poems are lively and entertaining, despite a steady the prevalence of accounts of penalties (up to and including death) naturally consequent on bad behaviour. The most famous of Ann's poems in the volume is...

CG says of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray that she was instructed by the lowliest of the muses to sing of ladies. Her subjects range from the fairly intimately personal to the boldly public (on...

It opens with England, with all thy faults I love thee still!—a quotation not from Byron 's Beppo, which lay still two years in the future, but from Cowper 's The Task (whence...

She opens the essay with a sharp and witty caricature of others' representations of unmarried women: they have, it is true, gained much both socially and æsthetically in passing from the traditionary type—the withered prude...

In Mansfield Park the heroine is a Romantic in her sensibilities: an admirer of Cowper , passionately devoted to her brother, stoical in her endurance of cold but vividly alive to the suffering of others...

The novel parodies Germaine de Staël 's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope and Cowper , but also texts...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

The title-page quotes Langhorne and the first chapter-heading William Cowper . Despite its related material, this story is more bland than The Cousins. The hero, Walsingham, appears in England as the ward of Sir...

Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare or Cowper . This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her...

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...