1836 8vols The Life and Works of William Cowper by T S Grimshawe


1836 8vols The Life and Works of William Cowper by T S Grimshawe

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The Life and Works of William Cowper

In Eight Volumes

By the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe

1836 - London - Saunders and Otley

7\" by 4.5\"; (xxiv) 344pp; (xvi) 348pp; (xv) 328pp; (xx) 362pp; (xvii) 414pp; (lviii) 281pp; (viii) 379pp; (xvi) 432pp.

DETAILS

Aset of The Life and Works of William Cowper.

Complete in eight volumes.

Now first compiled by the introduction of his \"Private Correspondence.\"

Revised, arranged and edited by the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, Rector of Burton, Northamptonshire, and Vicar of offerdenham, Bedfordshire, Author of the Life of the Rev. Legh Richmond.

With an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper by the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, Vicar of Harrow.

Second edition.

William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.

In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him \"the best modern poet\", whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem Yardley-Oak. He was a nephew of the poet Judith Madan.

Although after being institutionalised for insanity in the period 1763–65, Cowper found refuge in a fervent evangelical Christianity, the inspiration behind his much-loved hymns, he often experienced doubt and after a dream in 1773 believed that he was doomed to eternal damnation.

His religious sentiment and association with John Newton (who wrote the hymn \"Amazing Grace\") led to much of the poetry for which he is best remembered. His poem \"Light Shining out of Darkness\" gave the English language the idiom \"God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform.\"

CONDITION

In embossed brown cloth bindings with gilt lettering to the spines. Externally, a trifle rubbed. There is some bumping to the tops and tails of the spines. Internally, binding is loosening in places. Frontispiece is detached in volume III. Pages are generally bright and clean with some scattered light foxing. Overall: VERY GOOD.


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