Word: cowper
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Black lectured in Sever 11 last night on Cowper, before the usual large audience...
...Cowper's life is a very sad and pathetic one. He was always troubled with melancholy, which resulted twice in complete insanity, and was always worried by a dread of everlasting punishment. There was for him a high wall between himself and heaven, which he could never scale. He was born in November 1731 in Hertfordshire. His mother died when he was six years old, leaving him a delicate, sensitive child. Soon his father sent him to school, and while there, at the age of nine, melancholy seized him, aggravated by natural tendencies. It was of the sort to leave...
...became very attached to his cousin Theodora Cowper, but her father would not consent to their marriage no matter how much the lovers urged. They parted never to meet again. She remained unmarried and the event had a lasting influence on Cowper perhaps tending to make him more somber. His father now died in 1756 and soon after his best friend Sir Russell drowned in the Thames, and Cowper felt that he was left alone in the world...
...attempted suicide, but had failed in the effort. After eighteen months in an asylum he recovered and went to Huntington to see his brother. Here he met the Unwins and soon became an inmate of their home. On the death of Mr. Unwin the family went to Olney and Cowper with them. Due greatly to the bad influence of a Mr. Newton, curate of the parish, in 1773 his malady again returned and through his long illness of two years he was attended by Mrs. Unwin with the most affectionate care. To beguile the tedium of his recovery, he occupied...
...Lecture. Cowper. Mr. E. Charlton Black. Sever...