This book re-examines the literary significance of poet and
translator William Cowper (1731-1800). Too often, Cowper is
pigeonholed as an eccentric, a hopeless depressive, or even as a
religious lunatic. Often regarded as an 'early' Romantic, Cowper is
reconsidered in this book in light of a rich eighteenth-century
political and religious culture. Rather than read him as an
old-fashioned Calvinist stranded in an increasingly secularized
society, Cowper can be read as someone who well understood the
increasingly imprecise and emotionalist quality of
eighteenth-century religious discourse and who expressed this
dominant tendency with uncanny insight.
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