The Centenary LettersThe letters chosen for this volume build into a kind of biography, tracing Cowper through a series of relationships and crises, including his evangelical conversion, his love for Mary Unwin, and his final years. He also wrote about Olney, a place which mattered deeply to the poet. |
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... whole life with her , some- times at risk of scandalising local people who suspected that their relationship was more than platonic . It was Mary who nursed the poet through many of his depressions , and is said to have cut the rope ...
... whole life with her , some- times at risk of scandalising local people who suspected that their relationship was more than platonic . It was Mary who nursed the poet through many of his depressions , and is said to have cut the rope ...
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... whole days and moonlight nights in feeding upon a lovely prospect ! My eyes drink the rivers as they flow . If every human being upon earth could think for one quarter of an hour as I have done for many years , there might perhaps be ...
... whole days and moonlight nights in feeding upon a lovely prospect ! My eyes drink the rivers as they flow . If every human being upon earth could think for one quarter of an hour as I have done for many years , there might perhaps be ...
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... whole of that time , till lately , her income was nearly double mine . Her revenues indeed are now in some measure reduced , and do not much exceed my own ; the worst consequence of this is , that we are forced to deny ourselves some ...
... whole of that time , till lately , her income was nearly double mine . Her revenues indeed are now in some measure reduced , and do not much exceed my own ; the worst consequence of this is , that we are forced to deny ourselves some ...
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