Cowper's 'Task' and the writing of a poet's salvation. (discussion of The Task by William Cowper) From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: June 22, 1995| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1995 Rice University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

'The Task' by William Cowper is shown as his attempt to obtain the salvation he did not receive in life. Cowper had earlier converted to Calvinist Evangelicalism while confined in an asylum in 1764, believing that salvation can be gained through conversion. However, Cowper lost his salvation by renouncing his faith after a dream in which God supposedly rejected his plea for salvation.

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In the summer of 1764, while a patient at St. Albans Asylum for the Insane, William Cowper underwent a conversion to Calvinist Evangelicalism. During an intense bout of paranoia and self-contempt, he ...

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