Castaway
Roy Porter, 4 March 1982
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper. Vol. I: 1750-1781
edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp.
Oxford, 640 pp., £27.50, June 1979,0 19 811863 5 Show More
edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp.
Oxford, 640 pp., £27.50, June 1979,
The Poems of William Cowper: Vol. 1 1748-1782
edited by John Baird and Charles Ryskamp.
Oxford, 500 pp., £25, September 1980,0 19 811875 9 Show More
edited by John Baird and Charles Ryskamp.
Oxford, 500 pp., £25, September 1980,
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper. Vol. II: 1782-1786
edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp.
Oxford, 640 pp., £27.50, June 1979,0 19 811863 5 Show More
edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp.
Oxford, 640 pp., £27.50, June 1979,
“... Cowper came to me and said: “O that I were insane always. I will never rest. Can you not make me truly insane? … You retain health and yet are as mad as any of us all – mad as a refuge from unbelief – Bacon, Newton and Locke.’ ” Thus William Blake’s memo of a ghostly visitation from William Cowper ... ”