Word: cowper
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ideal, and a judgment. One of these elements, the picture-said the speaker-should have a place in the ideal letter. It should also, if may be, contain an incident; and it should be composed with an exquisite union of correctness and ease. The letters of the poet Cowper are, on the whole, the best in the language, and Fitzgerald's often approach these in merit...
...club entertained as its guests at the dinner, Commander Bayley of the Blake, Lieutenant Cowper-Key of the Tartar, and the British Vice-Consul Stuart...
...Cowper was not inventive in the way of choosing subjects for his own works. His friends always suggested them, as was the way with Fontaine, who required a guide to direct his course. In 1782 appeared his Table Talk, which attracted some attention. His Moral Satires, although they have little of satire about them, are remarkable for the exact correspondence of phrase and meaning. In them his zeal often carries him higher than in any other of his works...
...breakfast. At the suggestion of his new friend, he began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes. Cowper broke away more completely than Wadsworth from the old poetic diction, but he did not realize he was doing something new. Later he took to translating Homer but met with no success...
...Cowper lived for five years after the publication of the Task, dying in the year 1800, just one hundred years after Dryden...