William Cowper Quotes


When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?


Citations

Cowper, William. Poems Translated from the French of Madame de la Motte Guyon, J. Johnson, 1801.

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William Cowper
William Cowper
  • Born: November 26, 1731
  • Died: April 25, 1800
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet

William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him "the best modern poet", whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem Yardley-Oak.