Title: William Cowper
Description: "This book re-examines the literary significance of poet and translator William Cowper (1731-1800). Too often, Cowper is pigeonholed as an eccentric, a hopeless depressive, or even as a religious lunatic. Often regarded as an "early" Romantic, Cowper is reconsidered in this book in light of a rich eighteenth-century political and religious culture. Rather than read him as an old-fashioned Calvinist stranded in an increasingly secularized society, Cowper can be read as someone who well understood the increasingly imprecise and emotionalist quality of eighteenth-century religious discourse and who expressed this dominant tendency with uncanny insight."--Jacket.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, English Verse satire, History, History and criticism, Humor, Literature and society, Political and social views, Religion, Religion and literature, Religion in literature, Social problems in literature, Cowper, william, 1731-1800, Satire, english, history and criticism
Places: England
People: William Cowper (1731-1800)
Time periods: 18th century