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Poetry is not dead.(Arts & Literature)(For years incomprehensible and captive to academia, the art is regaining clarity - and maybe readers, too)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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April 13, 2003
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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard
Poetry is coming back.
Yes, yes, I know, for some of you out there it never went anywhere. But for the rest of us, poetry hasn't made any sense since the days of high school, e.e. cummings and Robert Frost. I used to love poetry. But read a contemporary poem? I tried that once, 15 years ago. I'd rather read the phone book.
Now consider all that's happened in the past couple of years:
The United States has a poet laureate, Billy Collins, who writes poems that can be read, understood and enjoyed without ...
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William Cowper's gypsies.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...works far lovelier," William Cowper narrates an encounter...The passage begins with Cowper's confident "I see...phrase that anticipates William Wordsworth's "wreaths...near Tintern Abbey, Cowper claims to see only...
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Rescuing the castaway: the case of William Cowper.(Literature)
Magazine article from: Quadrant
; ...mysterious ways--they are quoting William Cowper. Until very recently, lines by...this poem that first drew me to William Cowper, and it was many years...I became curious about the name William Cowper. THE TASK is Cowper's...
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Hope and Despair in the Writings of William Cowper.
Magazine article from: Social Research
; ...writings of the 18th century poet William Cowper (1731--1800) offer an especially...at restored health and sanity. William Cowper was born in 1731 to a distinguished...mother, Ann Donne, who died when William was six, traced her descent from...
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 "Birmingham Mail (England)")
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Things are looking up at primary; School Of The Week WILLIAM COWPER COMMUNITY PRIMARY, NEWTOWN.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England)
; ...improve standards in the classroom. William Cowper Community Primary, in Chilwell...authority on that. To that end, William Cowper has developed a partnership...indoor rowing machines around which William Cowper has created its own rowing...
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The Hour of Our Nation's Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review
; ...The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi, edited by...Tennessee, September 2007. $48.50 William C. Nelson was a young college student...illuminating tidbits exist within. Cowper, though frustrated at being unable...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Books: History behind the hymns; How Sweet the Sound, the absorbing story of John Newton and William Cowper. Published by Ambassador Productions. pounds 7.99.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; ...in the idiom of a modern service. John Newton and William Cowper are probably the most illustrious of the hymn writers...extended across England. So taken was aspiring poet William Cowper by Newton's preaching that he moved to Olney and...
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The hour of our nation's agony; the Civil War letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...s agony; the Civil War letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi. Nelson, William Cowper. U. of Tennessee Press 2007 336 pages...view of how the experience of war changed William C. Nelson, who joined the army as a naive...
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Lines in William Cowper's Hand Written in the Margins of God's Pleasing Providence in the Library of John Newton.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Poetry
; LINES IN WILLIAM COWPER'S HAND WRITTEN IN THE MARGINS OF GOD'S PLEASING PROVIDENCE (pp.372-73) IN THE LIBRARY OF JOHN NEWTON Little fly, dost...
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Romanticism and religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 0754655709 Romanticism and religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens. Ed. by Gavin Hopps and Jane Stabler. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006 262 pages $99.95 Hardcover The nineteenth...
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"Meaner themes": mock-heroic and providentialism in Cowper's poetry. (William Cowper)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; I William Cowper's poetry has traditionally been seen...particular form: mock-heroic. While Cowper's adoption of the form affiliates him...those in Augustan poems of the same kind. Cowper's mock-heroic, unlike that of earlier...
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