William Cowper and His Circle: A Study of the Hannay Collection

1962 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
RYSKAMP ◽  
Cowper ◽  
Hesketh
Keyword(s):  
William Cowper

Principal Booksellers and Publishing Outlets

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Rivers
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
William Cowper ◽  
Religious Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
George Whitefield ◽  
The Church

This chapter covers the publishing history of some of the main authors discussed in the book, the Congregationalists Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, and Elizabeth Rowe, the Methodists John Wesley and George Whitefield, and the Church of England evangelicals James Hervey, John Newton, and William Cowper; the publications of the major London dissenting booksellers, Edward and Charles Dilly, and Joseph Johnson; the printers and sellers for the smaller denominations, the Quakers and the Moravians; and some important provincial printers and sellers of religious books, Joshua Eddowes, Samuel Hazard, Thomas and Mary Luckman, Robert Spence, William Phorson, and John Fawcett.

The Romantic Essay and the City

On Essays ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Gregory Dart
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
William Cowper ◽  
William Hazlitt ◽  
Personal Reminiscence ◽  
Controlled Conditions ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Familiar Essay ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the ambivalence of the Romantic familiar essay form towards the city by looking at the two main literary tributaries that fed into it—the current of self-consciously pro-metropolitan prose writing that had been inaugurated by Steele and Addison, and the more anti-commercial tradition of retirement poetry epitomized by William Cowper and the Lake poets. It looks at the way in which Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, and Charles Lamb in particular strove to bury their continuing misgivings about the polis as a centre of commercial rapacity and unruly popular politics in celebrations of the city as being, under certain controlled conditions, a precious haven of imaginative activity, personal reminiscence, and literary tradition. Their aim, even if it was never quite articulated as such, was to turn the Romantic periodical essay into a prose medium that was as sensitive as Wordsworth’s poetry to the ravages of recent historical change, while maintaining, in the end, a more progressive and forward-looking attitude to it.

William Cowper, the surgeon

1881 ◽  
Vol s6-IV (101) ◽  
pp. 446-446
Author(s):  
Thos. Woodhouse
Keyword(s):  
William Cowper
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