Cowper by Goldwin Smith - 9781108034654

CowperAuthor(s): Goldwin Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108034654, 978-1108034654\nSynopsis\nThis biography of William Cowper by Goldwin Smith [tel] was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in [tel]this reissue being from the 'ninth thousand' of 1881). Smith states in his opening chapter that Cowper [tel] 'is the most important English poet of the period between Pope and the illustrious group headed by Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley he may perhaps himself be numbered among the precursors of the Revolution, though he was certainly the mildest of them all'. He also regards Cowper as the great poet of the religious revival of the eighteenth century. Smith himself was an Oxford-educated historian who wrote for the Saturday Review among other periodicals. He was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1858, and later taught at Cornell University, before .