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William Cowper

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  • William Cowper (26 Kasım 1731 – 25 Nisan 1800) İngiliz şair ve Hümanist. Zamanının en popüler şairlerinden biri, 18.yy günlük yaşamı ve kırsal doğal yaşam ile ilgili şiirler yazmıştır. Birçok bakımdan Romantik şiirin öncüleri arasında yer alır. Samuel Taylor Coleridge modern çağın en önemli şairleri arasında gördüğünü belirtmektedir. Cowper evangelizm kilisesinin ateşli savunucularındandır. Cowper'in çok sevilen ilahilerinin ilham kaynağı dini konulardı.

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    Başlıca eserleri

    Olney Hymns, 1779, in collaboration with John Newton
    John Gilpin, 1782
    The Task, 1785
    Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 1791 (translations from the Greek).

    İlahileri

    127 Jesus! where'er thy people meet
    357 The Spirit breathes upon the word
    450 There is a fountain, filled with blood
    790 Hark! my soul! it is the Lord
    856 To Jesus, the Crown of my hope
    871 Far from the world, O Lord! I flee
    885 My Lord! how full of sweet content (1782 translation)
    932 What various hindrances we meet
    945 Oh! for a closer walk with God
    965 When darkness long has veiled my mind
    1002 'Tis my happiness below
    1009 O Lord! in sorrow I resign (1782 translation)
    1029 O Lord! my best desire fulfill
    1043 There is a safe and secret place
    1060 God of my life! to thee I call

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    moves in a mysterious way,
    His wonders to perform;
    He plants his footsteps in the sea,
    And rides upon the storm.
    Olney Hymns (1779)--'Light Shining out of Darkness'There is a fountain fill'd with blood
    Drawn from EMMANUEL's veins;
    And sinners, plung'd beneath that flood,
    Lose all their guilty stains.
    Olney Hymns (1779)--'Praise for the Fountain Opened'Oh! for a closer walk with ,
    A calm and heav'nly frame;
    A light to shine upon the road
    That leads me to the Lamb!
    Olney Hymns (1779)--'Walking with God'God made the country, and man made the town.
    The Task (1785)--'The Sofa' (Book I, line 749)There is a pleasure in poetic pains
    Which only poets know.
    The Task (1785)--'The Timepiece' (Book II, lines 285-6)
    Variety's the very spice of life,
    That gives it all its flavour.
    The Task (1785)--'The Timepiece' (Book II, lines 606-7)I am monarch of all I survey,
    My right there is none to dispute;
    From the centre all round to the sea,
    I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
    'Verses Supposed to be Written byAlexander Selkirk' (1782), lines 1-4No voice divine the storm allay'd,
    No light propitious shone;
    When, snatch'd from all effectual aid,
    We perish'd, each alone;
    But I beneath a rougher sea,
    And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he.
    "The Castaway" (1799), lines 61-66'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
    To peep at such a world; to see the stir
    Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd;
    To hear the roar she sends through all her gates
    At a safe distance, where the dying sound
    Falls a soft murmur on the uninjur'd ear.
    The Task (1785)--'The Winter Evening' (Book IV, lines 88-93)


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