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William Cowper (/ ˈ k uː p ər / KOO-pər; 15 November 1731 [2] / 26 November 1731 – 14 April 1800 [2] / 25 April 1800 ) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. 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.
The Olney Hymns / ˈ oʊ n i / were first published in February 1779 and are the combined work of curate John Newton (1725–1807) and his poet friend William Cowper (1731–1800). The hymns were written for use in Newton's rural parish, which was made up of relatively poor and uneducated followers.
The Cowper and Newton Museum is a museum in Olney, north Buckinghamshire, England, around 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Central Milton Keynes. Celebrating the work and lives of two famous local residents: William Cowper (1731–1800), a celebrated 18th-century poet; and John Newton (1725–1807), a slave trader and subsequently a prominent ...
Powys was born in Dorchester, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a granddaughter of Dr John Johnson, the cousin and friend of the poet William Cowper. He came from a family of eleven children, many of whom were also talented.
At the Somerville College, she minded the large library, and published a well-received bibliography of William Cowper (1963), as well as editing the 4th revision of H. S. Milford's Cowper's Poetica (1967). The work she was best known for her three-volume edition of George Crabbe's The Complete Poetical Works' (1988), for which she won the Rose ...
The Negro's Complaint is a poem by William Cowper, which talks about slavery from the perspective of the slave. [1] It was written in 1788. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was intended to be sung to the tune of a popular ballad, Admiral Hosier's Ghost .
William Cowper made improvements to the property, which in 1811 was inherited by Charles Cholmondeley (1770–1846), third son of Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale Royal Abbey and rented to a tenant. In 1821, along with 135 acres (55 ha) of land, it was bought by Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster and demolished in 1830 to allow ...
William Cowper FRS (/ ˈ k uː p ər / KOO-pər; c. 1666 – 8 March 1709) was an English surgeon and anatomist, famous for his early description of what is now known as Cowper's gland. Cowper was born in Petersfield, Hampshire , and he was apprenticed to a London surgeon, William Bignall, in March 1682.