Cowper

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Why is Cowper still read? Not for his outworn system of theology, nor for his thought; in nature-poetry Wordsworth far surpassed him; his lyrics pale in the light of Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning; Byron has sho...