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Cowper

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Cow·per  (kpr, kou-, kpr), William 1731-1800.
British poet considered a precursor of romanticism. His best-known work, The Task (1785), praises rural life and leisure.
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Noun1.Cowper - English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709)
William Cowper
2.Cowper - English poet who wrote hymns and poetry about nature (1731-1800)
William Cowper
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But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast crossing grave-yards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as passing wise, and therefore jolly; --not that man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
I thought so at the time; but you WOULD give him Cowper.
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context
For the matter of that he wanted me to read Cowper, from whom no one could get anything but good, and he wanted me to read Byron, from whom I could then have got no harm; we get harm from the evil we understand.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
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