Life and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr. With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper

The Life and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr. With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper. A New and Enlarged Edition.

Author(s): Hayley, William and William Cowper

8vo.(5.5" x8.75") 4 volumes. 1806. Hayley, William and William Cowper. Chichester: for J. Johnson. Quarter blue cloth over gray paper boards. Spine with manuscript author/subject to gilt bordered mustard yellow leather. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, with loss (see pic). Spine rubbed, with chips, head and foot chipped with small loss (see pic). Covers soiled and stained. Old bookplate of Richard Corbet, Adderley to front pastedown. Top edge darkened, others deckled. Engraved frontispiece. 4 volumes.

From Wiki: William Cowper (/ˈkuːpər/ KOO-pər; 26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him "the best modern poet", whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem "Yardley-Oak". After being institutionalized for insanity, Cowper found refuge in a fervent evangelical Christianity. He continued to suffer doubt about his salvation and, after a dream in 1773, believed that he was doomed to eternal damnation. He recovered, and went on to write more religious hymns. His religious sentiment and association with John Newton (who wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace") led to much of the poetry for which he is best remembered, and to the series of Olney Hymns. His poem "Light Shining out of Darkness" gave English the phrase: "God moves in a mysterious way/ His wonders to perform." He also wrote a number of anti-slavery poems, and his friendship with Newton, who was an avid anti-slavery campaigner, resulted in Cowper's being asked to write in support of the Abolitionist campaign. Cowper wrote a poem called "The Negro's Complaint" (1788) which rapidly became very famous, and was often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 20th-century civil rights movement. He also wrote several other less well-known poems on slavery in the 1780s, many of which attacked the idea that slavery was economically viable.

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