The Task
Author : William Cowper
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1810
Category : English poetry
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Author : William Cowper
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1810
Category : English poetry
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Author : William Cowper
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 1896
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Author : William Cowper
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 1828
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Author : James Bryant Reeves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108874819
Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and William Cowper worried extensively about atheism's dystopian possibilities, and routinely represented atheists as being beyond the pale of human sympathy. Challenging traditional formulations of secularization that equate modernity with unbelief, Reeves reveals how reactions against atheism rather helped sustain various forms of religious belief throughout the Age of Enlightenment. He demonstrates that hostility to unbelief likewise produced various forms of religious ecumenicalism, with authors depicting non-Christian theists from around Britain's emerging empire as sympathetic allies in the fight against irreligion. Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century traces a literary history of atheism in eighteenth-century Britain for the first time, revealing a relationship between atheism and secularization far more fraught than has previously been supposed.
Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 1983-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521236436
Originally published in 1983, this book is the first complete critical study of The Task, by William Cowper (1731-1800).
Author : Anahid Nersessian
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2020
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 022670131X
"The Romantic period in literature coincided with two of the most significant transformations in modern history: the Industrial Revolution and, with it, the inflection point of the Anthropocene. Literary critics have shown that much of Romantic poetry expresses an uncanny insight into both of these transformations, including the human and ecological costs of what we now call a carbon-based economy. But was art really capable of making sense of the emerging crisis-or of changing the future? In a superbly nuanced work of literary criticism, Anahid Nersessian shows that poets began to disqualify themselves from explaining the train of consequences that industry set in motion. Their form of knowledge-if knowledge it be-was of an order different from science or economics, and could not bear the burden of accounting for environmental calamity. Romanticism, Nersessian argues, is of the Anthropocene but not about it, and she cautions against investing its poetry with a straightforwardly testimonial power. In doing so, she models an approach to criticism that reads within what Charles Olson calls "the shapeful," emphasizing the role of rhetorical figures in fashioning the posture a poem takes on a historical question. While focusing on the Romantics, Nersessian also ranges back to the seventeenth century (e.g., the poetry of Andrew Marvell) and forward to examples of contemporary poetry and conceptual art (e.g., Derek Jarman's poetry, and installations by Agnes Denes and Helen Mirra). Within literary studies, this is a widely anticipated book by one of the most brilliant critics of her generation"--
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
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ISBN : 0557239257
Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 of approximately 50 copies of the collection still exist. The poems were largely inspired by Lord Byron, including the long title poem "Tamerlane", which depicts a historical conqueror who laments the loss of his first romance. Like much of Poe's future work, the poems in Tamerlane and Other Poems include themes of love, death, and pride.
Author : William Cowper
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Children's poetry, English
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Author : William Cowper
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 1914
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Author : William Cowper
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1806
Category : English poetry
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