William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

ISBN-13: 9780582087279 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 346 str.

William Cowper; James Sambrook

Opis

This study of William Cowper spans his early life and writings to his last years. It includes chapters on his moral satires and light verse as well as on "The Task" and the Homer translations. It also contains a selection of his poetic work.

Spis treści

PART 1: Cowper's early life and writings  Madness, salvation and Mary Unwin; John Newton and "Olney Hymns"; madness and reprobation; recovery - occasional poems and letters; moral satires; Lady Austen and light verse; "The Task" - a poem of composite order; "The Task" - idyllium and georgio; "The Task" - philosophical satire; "The Task" - baptized philosophy; Lady Hesketh and the Homer translation; last years; Cowper's place  PART 2: Early poems  On Finding the Heel of a Shoe; "Delia, Th'unkindest Girl on Earth"; song - "No More Shall Hapless Celia's Ears"; Epistle to Robert Lloyd; "Doom'd, As I Am, In Solitude to Waste"; "Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion"  PART 3: Olney Hymns  Walking with God; Lovest Thou Me?; Praise for the Fountain Opened; Jehovah our Righteousness; I will Praise the Lord at all Times; Light Shining Out of Darkness  PART 4: Poems (1782)  The Progress of Error (lines 369-416); Truth (lines 131-64); Expostulation (lines 272-389); Hope (lines 663-771); Conversation (505-604); Retirement (365-480); Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk; Boadicea - an ode  PART 5: Later poems  The Diverting History of John Gilpin; The Colubriad; On the Loss of the Royal George; Epitaph on a Hare; Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce; On The Death of Mrs Throckmorton's Bulfinch; On the Recepit of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk; Yardley Oak; To Mary; The Cast-away  PART 6 Translation of Homer  "Iliad" I, 1-8; "Iliad" XII, 336-97; "Odyssey" VII, 134-62.

O autorze

James Sambrook