Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...launch, "John Harvard," which was sold recently to the University of Wisconsin navy, has arrived at Madison and will be thoroughly overhauled before being launched next spring. The launch was built by Riley and Cowley of Brooklyn in 1893 and has been in use at Harvard ever since...
...conditions of permanence? Immediate or contemporaneous recognition is certainly not dominant among them, or Cowley would still be popular,- Cowley, to whom the Muse gave every gift but one, the gift of the unexpected and inevitable word. Nor can mere originality assure the interest of posterity, else why are Chaucer and Gray familiar, while Donne, one of the subtlest and most self-irradiating minds that ever sought an outlet in verse, is known only...
...first volume to which he signed his name. With Cowper and Burns began a new style of literature, in which nature was more regarded. Especially in the poetry of Keats we have as good a painting of nature as there is. It was when the new poetical style of Cowley and Burns had done its work through Keats that Tennyson came into prominence. Among his early poems two are especially prominent, the Recollections of Arabian Knights and Marianna. In 1833 Tennyson published his second volume with The Lady of Shalott as its first poem. These two volumes mark the lyrical...