Cowper: Exploring the Melancholic Beauty of Cowper's Poetry and its Influence on Romantic Literature

by Goldwin Smith

William Cowper was an English poet and hymn writer. He was of the most popular poets of his time. He changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside, becoming the forerunner of the English romantic movement. The piece presented here is a biography of Cowper by Goldwin Smith, a British historian, and journalist.

72 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Goldwin Smith was a British historian and journalist. He held the Regius Professorship of Modern History at Oxford. He was a strong supporter of the North during the Civil War and moved to the United States in 1868, teaching English and constitutional history at Cornell University.

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