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...poems is well made although far from exclusively of the best verse. It covers a wide range ?poems from F.P.A., A.E., Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Matthew Arnold, Hilaire Belloc, William Rose Benet, William Blake, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Byron, Lewis Carroll, S. T. Coleridge. Hilda Conklin, William Cowper, King David (three Psalms) etc., etc. Those who are accustomed to finding most anthologies a great bore, may well be pleased by this...
...snows. The genius of the family, Theodore F. Powys, appears in the journal, now plunged in abysmal moroseness, now making "his sardonic, dry quips, his double-tongued chirpings, jumping this way and that like crickets in a hot hayfield," always sniffing and listening around metaphysical corners for God. John Cowper Powys now and again casts his sterile chill. And there are other Powyses?a wisp of a mother, a "lovely seagull" sister, a rustic brother who dwells in "the divine oblivion of cider and ditch-digging, of making bulls leap cows, and bringing foals into the world...
...French words I did not know and wrote them out. A little later, there was read, aloud to us Hume and Smollett's history, as well as Buchanan's, Rollin's and others; likewise Mitford's Greece; while in the evening my father read aloud Milton's Paradise Lost, Cowper's Task . . . and Dryden's works. With an Italian master, we read the works of Tasso and Metastasio. Our education was good inasmuch as we read classical works and not textbooks. What we read then has remained in my mind to this...
Curate Newton acquired facility in hymn-writing, decided to publish. Poet Cowper agreed to help. So, in the glorious year 1779, appeared the Olney Hymns, containing dozens of hymns which English-singing people were destined to sing ever after. Some of them: Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken, How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds, Jesus, Where 'er Thy People Meet, There is a Fountain Filled with Blood...
...Poet Cowper, intermittently insane, lived to translate Homer. Curate Newton was advanced to a better "living...