The Letters of William Cowper (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Cowper
- First Published: 1809
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Letters
- Subjects: Rural or country life, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Eighteenth century, Depression, mental, Castaways, Animals
Critical Evaluation:
If we knew nothing of William Cowper except his poetry, we should be likely to picture him as a cheerful, witty, affable, and broadly humane man whose worst troubles faded before the pleasures he so abundantly found in life. Many of these qualities also appear in the man who emerges from a reading of the LETTERS; but beside the affability, the wit, the humanity, stands a person four times pushed beyond reason into insanity, more or less constantly in unmitigated despair, convinced that a vengeful God hated him and had ordained for him the eternal...
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