Author: William HayleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr
Author: William HayleyThe Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr.
Author: William HayleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108066933
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Successors such as Wordsworth and Coleridge admired yet overshadowed William Cowper (1731–1800). Troubled by mental instability, he retreated from both the legal profession and the woman he had hoped to marry, seeking out a quiet existence in the country. In spite of his struggles, he made a translation of Homer's Iliad, produced a considerable body of poetry, and maintained many epistolary contacts. This four-volume biography, compiled by his friend and fellow poet William Hayley (1745–1820), appeared between 1803 and 1806, bringing together selected letters and unpublished poems to illuminate Cowper's personal and literary life. Volume 4 (1806) is a collection of supplementary material, namely amendments to the previous volumes, additional letters and an index giving a short description of every letter's content.
The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley
Author: William CowperThe life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley. Supplementary pages
Author: William CowperThe Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esq
Author: William HayleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr
Author: William HayleyThe Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esqr
Author: William HayleyThe Author's Effects
Author: Nicola J. WatsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192586831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity. It traces how and why the writer's bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer's house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics—Burns' skull, Keats' hair, Petrarch's cat, Poe's raven, Brontë's bonnet, Dickinson's dress, Shakespeare's chair, Austen's desk, Woolf's spectacles, Hawthorne's window, Freud's mirror, Johnson's coffee-pot and Bulgakov's stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologised themselves and their work—Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' tower, Scott's Abbotsford and Irving's Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch's Arquà, Rousseau's Ile St Pierre, and Shakespeare's Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did, discovering deep continuities with the redevelopment of Shakespeare's New Place for 2016.
Bibliotheca Norfolciensis
Author: Jeremiah James ColmanPublisher:
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Category : Norfolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq.
Author: Charles RyskampPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521169486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A 1959 study of the early life and work of the poet William Cowper. Dr Ryskamp's study ends where the better known part of Cowper's life begins, giving a soundly based, factual and detailed account of the early and more worldly career of the man later famous as a recluse.