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Page 86
... poems to " Delia , " published twenty - five years after his death , supply no certain answer . Love poems are always self - conscious , and those of Cowper , charming and elegant though they be , were written at a time when there was a ...
... poems to " Delia , " published twenty - five years after his death , supply no certain answer . Love poems are always self - conscious , and those of Cowper , charming and elegant though they be , were written at a time when there was a ...
Page 247
... poems written between 1777 and the beginning of 1780 are , it is true , but elegant trifles . Though now in his late forties , he was still the dilettante in verse , with apparently little sense of his own potentialities . " Alas ! " he ...
... poems written between 1777 and the beginning of 1780 are , it is true , but elegant trifles . Though now in his late forties , he was still the dilettante in verse , with apparently little sense of his own potentialities . " Alas ! " he ...
Page 387
... poem , 83 ; apprenticed to the law , 84 ; his life in solicitor's office , 84 ; his cousins in Southampton Row , 85 ; falls in love with Theodora , 85 ; marriage for- bidden by uncle , 85 ; his love poems , 86-90 ; his views on love and ...
... poem , 83 ; apprenticed to the law , 84 ; his life in solicitor's office , 84 ; his cousins in Southampton Row , 85 ; falls in love with Theodora , 85 ; marriage for- bidden by uncle , 85 ; his love poems , 86-90 ; his views on love and ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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