The Task

The Task
Author: William Cowper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1810
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

The Diverting History of John Gilpin

The Diverting History of John Gilpin
Author: William Cowper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1906
Genre: Horsemanship
ISBN:

On his wedding anniversary, John Gilpin sets out to join his wife for a celebration, but the horse runs away with him.

Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century

Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century
Author: James Bryant Reeves
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108874819

Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and William Cowper worried extensively about atheism's dystopian possibilities, and routinely represented atheists as being beyond the pale of human sympathy. Challenging traditional formulations of secularization that equate modernity with unbelief, Reeves reveals how reactions against atheism rather helped sustain various forms of religious belief throughout the Age of Enlightenment. He demonstrates that hostility to unbelief likewise produced various forms of religious ecumenicalism, with authors depicting non-Christian theists from around Britain's emerging empire as sympathetic allies in the fight against irreligion. Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century traces a literary history of atheism in eighteenth-century Britain for the first time, revealing a relationship between atheism and secularization far more fraught than has previously been supposed.

Tamerlane and Other Poems

Tamerlane and Other Poems
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2010-03-16
Genre:
ISBN: 0557239257

Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 of approximately 50 copies of the collection still exist. The poems were largely inspired by Lord Byron, including the long title poem "Tamerlane", which depicts a historical conqueror who laments the loss of his first romance. Like much of Poe's future work, the poems in Tamerlane and Other Poems include themes of love, death, and pride.