Culshaw, Geoff. Geoff’s Genealogy. 21 Feb. 2009, http://www.geoffsgenealogy.co.uk/index.htm.
William Cowper
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Standard Name: Cowper, William
Indexed Name: Cowper, William,, 1731 - 1800
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | Mary Collyer | Before their financial difficulties the family were living in Ludgate Street. |
| Textual Features | Lydia Howard Sigourney | An expanded edition as Select Poems, 1845, includes To a Shred of Linen, not a lyric but a poem in blank verse which dramatises through different voices the paradoxes inherent in combining the... |
| Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
draws on Hannah More
, her niece Lucy Aikin
, and (anonymously) Joanna Baillie
. She is even-handed in that she includes six excerpts from James Fordyce
's Sermons to Young Women, a... |
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
| Textual Features | Patricia Beer | There are fourteen new poems, plus the remarkable dedication, entitled To the Same, a sonnet which sets out from the poet's early admiration for a poem of this title by William Cowper
. I... |
| Textual Features | Sappho | They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic... |
| Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829. 1829, iv |
| Textual Features | Susanna Blamire | Critic Jonathan Wordsworth
takes On the Dangerous Illness of my Friend Mrs. L. as exemplying SB
's keen awareness of new developments that affect her art, since its personal ruminative style is inspired by William Cowper |
| Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know). Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828. title-page |
| Textual Features | Susanna Watts | Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper
of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one... |
| Textual Production | Harriet Corp | The title-page lists booksellers involved in this project at Bradford and Leeds. There was an edition at Philadelphia the same year. The title-page quotes Cowper
. An advertisement says this two-volume work had already... |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Five hundred of JCM
's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband
both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library
(MS... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | In 1793 CF
corresponded with William Cowper
's friend Lady Hesketh
, and through her, with Cowper himself. Mary Russell Mitford
concurs in calling CF
an excellent letter-writer. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols. 1: 251 |
| Textual Production | Anne Hunter | New poems by AH
continued to make their way into print, along with new collections which drew on her already-published work. In 1804 there appeared as a song-sheet her A New Ballad, entitled and call'd... |
| Textual Production | Emma Marshall |
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