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January 24, 2010
Subject: Poetry of Simple Living
Subject: Poetry of Simple Living
This collection contains a rather small selection of Cowper’s poetry and a significant number of letters. Both reveal the poet’s attention to the little things – the details of simple living, such as the cat’s behavior or the garden. Most of the poems are autobiographical lyrics. A few are fables. The most remarkable poem, by contemporary standards, is “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture Out of Norfolk,” in which the poet relives childhood days with his mother, who died while he was young. Bagehot’s essay provides biographical information as well as criticism. He compares Cowper with Pope, in style, not quality: “What Pope is to our fashionable and town life, Cowper is to our domestic and rural life” (37).
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