William Cowper: Religion, Satire, SocietyBucknell University Press, 2004 - 207 pagina's Following a brief introduction showing the current state of Cowper scholarship, this book first examines eighteenth-century critical theory, showing how theology and literary analysis frequently overlapped. The next chapters examine Cowper's formative relationship with the satirical culture of the early 1760s, continuing with an explanation of how Cowper was drawn into public satirical debate as a result of his cousin's lengthy and controversial defense of polygamy. Cowper's reputation as a satirist is then juxtaposed with his understanding of gardening as an endeavor rich in political and theological metaphors. The final chapters consider Cowper's fascination with frontiers and with marsh maritime imagery, imagery that represents the defining limits of his imagination. The book concludes by asserting that Cowper's contradictions, inhibitions, and honest insecurities render his body of work peculiarly relevant to a twenty-first-century readership. Conrad Brunstrom is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. |
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The AntiVisionaries of the Nonsense Club The Liberating Effects of Literary Digression | 43 |
Antithelyphthora and the Moral Satires The Enduring Appeal of Common Sense | 69 |
A Gardeners Question Time Topographic Traumas and Impious Politics | 99 |
William Cowpers Satanic Terror A Topographic Poetics of Maritime Extremity | 138 |
Conclusion | 167 |
Notes | 176 |
Select Bibliography | 194 |
Index | 203 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 80 - My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers.
Pagina 82 - Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light; She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit, Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew...
Pagina 160 - Jesus me, the last delinquent, Deems the profanest. Man disavows and Deity disowns me, Hell might afford my miseries a shelter ; Therefore, Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against me.
Pagina 49 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 13 - My best desires are faint and few, I fain would strive for more ; But when I cry, " My strength renew !
Pagina 40 - The Supreme Author of our being has so formed the soul of man, that nothing but himself can be its last, adequate, and proper happiness. Because, therefore, a great part of our happiness must arise from the contemplation of his being,.. that he might give our souls a just relish of such a contemplation, he has made them naturally delight in the apprehension of what is great or unlimited.
Pagina 136 - Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste . His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before ; Thine eye shall be instructed, and thine heart, Made pure, shall relish with divine delight 'Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
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