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This biography of William Cowper by Goldwin Smith (1823 1910) was
published in the first series of 'English Men of Letters' in 1880
(this reissue being from the 'ninth thousand' of 1881). Smith
states in his opening chapter that Cowper (1731 1800) '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 settling in Canada, where he
wrote widely on historical, constitutional and religious topics.
Goldwin Smith (1823 1910) was a British historian and journalist.
After studying at Magdalen College, Oxford, Smith became a leading
advocate of university reform before being appointed Regius
Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1858. He resigned his
position in 1866, and spent two years lecturing at Cornell
University before moving to Toronto following his marriage in 1875.
He was considered by contemporaries a leading proponent of
left-wing intellectual radicalism. This volume, first published in
1863, contains a collection of letters written by Smith concerning
British colonial interests. He was a staunch anti-imperialist, and
the letters examine colonial emancipation, government, trade, and
British relations with Canada, New Zealand and Gibraltar, from this
political view, urging the cessation of British colonial expansion.
This volume provides valuable insights into the views and political
beliefs of late nineteenth-century British anti-imperialists.
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