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Free Shipping All orders of Don't have an account? Update your profile Let us wish you a happy birthday! This scarce book was first published in It comprises a collection of poems by the 18th century poet and hymnologist, William Cooper, who was one of the most popular poets of the age and can be considered as a forerunner to the Romantic poets.
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And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
What will your verse be? Outside academic circles, William Cowper is a name not many will hear and one even fewer will bother to read up on. So many names get lost and so many are never heard.
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The things they write on, though removed from our own current situations, are still fiercely important. We can learn from poetry. We can learn what drove these people and how we can utilise such things in our own lives. And this is why I chose to study it. The quote I attached at the top articulates more than I ever could about poetry. We should never forget our writers. The same is true for what we read today.
The books that fall into the bestseller list and become popular often undeservedly outshine books that are on the fringes of the marketplace.
The Task, and Other Poems
Without wanting to go into a fall blown rant about how under-read some writers are, I will cut this short and simply say that Cowper is much better than his legacy would suggest. His poetry was a precursor to the Romantic literary movement. In here are themes that would appear in Blake and Wordsworth shortly after. They received the fame he did not. I suppose they had the advantage of writing when poetry exploded, when it became popular and, dare I say it, even sexy.
Just look at what Byron did with his writing and where it got him. Cowper was funny and he was sarcastic and he was bitter. His stance on slavery was razor sharp: Volume 2 Cantique 21 Live to Love: Volume 4 Cantique 49 Love Pure and Fervent: Volume 4 Cantique 31 The Entire Surrender: Volume 4 Cantique 77 The Perfect Sacrifice: Volume 4 Cantique 74 God Hides his People: Volume 4 Cantique 42 The Nativity: Volume 3 Cantique 71 On the Same: Volume 3 Cantique 72 On the Same: Volume 3 Cantique 73 The Joy of the Cross: Volume 3 Contique 97 Joy in Martyrdom: