The Life and Works of William Cowper; Volume 5 - Couverture rigide

Cowper, William 1731-1800

9781371235055: The Life and Works of William Cowper; Volume 5

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1371235058 ISBN 13 : 9781371235055

Editeur : Wentworth Press, 2016

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In detailing the incidents that occur in the hfe of Cowper, we recorded, in the close of the last volume, a malevolent report highly injurious to his integrity and honour. In order to recall the fact to the memory of the reader, we insert the statement itself, in the words of Cowper :A report is, and has been some time current, in this and the neighbouring counties, that, though I have given myself the air of declaiming against the slave trade, in The Task, I am in reality a friend to it; and last night I received a letter from Joe Rye, to inform me, that I have been much traduced and calumniated on this account. That the author of The Task, a poem distinguished by its tone of pure and elevated morality, and breathing a spirit of most uncompromising hostility against the slave trade that such a man, at that time in the very zenith of hiy fame, should be VOL. V.
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