The Poetical Works of William Cowper Published by Thomas Yardley (LP124)

Circa 1900: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated Frontispiece

Original red leather with gilt titles on the spine. 483 very clean and bright pages, gilt edges all round, first few pages brown stained along the bottom edge. The front cover is detached from the spine, back cover and spine firm and intact. (LP124)

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William Cowper, (born November 26, 1731, Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England—died April 25, 1800, East Dereham, Norfolk), one of the most widely read English poets of his day, whose most characteristic work, as in The Task or the melodious short lyric “The Poplar Trees,” brought a new directness to 18th-century nature poetry.

Cowper wrote of the joys and sorrows of everyday life and was content to describe the minutiae of the countryside. In his sympathy with rural life, his concern for the poor and downtrodden, and his comparative simplicity of language, he may be seen as one in revolt against much 18th-century verse and as a forerunner of Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. While he is often gently humorous in his verse, the sense of desolation that was never far below the surface of his mind is revealed in many of his poems, notably “The Castaway.”

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Cowper