Article: The hour of our nation's agony; the Civil War letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: The Hour of Our Nation's Agony: The Civil War ...
The Virginia Quarterly Review;  January 1, 2008 ;     483 words ... ... Our Nation's Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi, edited ... University of Mississippi when the Civil War broke out. Enlisting early ... titles in the Voices in the Civil War series, this collection of ...

Article: William Cowper
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...William Cowper The most characteristic work of the English poet William Cowper (1731-1800) is gentle and pious in mood ... subjects of romantic and Victorian authors. William Cowper was born on Nov. 26, 1731; his mother was ...

Article: Things are looking up at primary; School Of The Week ...
Birmingham Mail (England);  February 3, 2009 ;     694 words ... ... improve standards in the classroom. William Cowper Community Primary, in Chilwell Croft ... authority on that." To that end, William Cowper has developed a partnership with nearby ... indoor rowing machines around which William Cowper has created its own rowing club ...

Article: Rescuing the castaway: the case of William ...
Quadrant;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... mysterious ways--they are quoting William Cowper. Until very recently, lines by Cowper ... not this poem that first drew me to William Cowper, and it was many years before I realised ... that I became curious about the name William Cowper. THE TASK is Cowper's epic. He ...

Article: Hope and Despair in the Writings of William Cowper.
Social Research;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... and its readers. The writings of the 18th century poet William Cowper (1731--1800) offer an especially useful laboratory ... suffused with happiness at restored health and sanity. William Cowper was born in 1731 to a distinguished family. His father ...

Article: Cowper's 'Task' and the writing of a poet's salvation. ...
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  June 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... while a patient at St. Albans Asylum for the Insane, William Cowper underwent a conversion to Calvinist Evangelicalism. During ... Calvinist salvation may come tumbling down. In the case of William Cowper, it did indeed come tumbling down. We know from any number ...

Article: Books: History behind the hymns; How Sweet the Sound, the ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  November 10, 1997 ;     508 words ... ... even in the idiom of a modern service. John Newton and William Cowper are probably the most illustrious of the hymn writers of ... preacher extended across England. So taken was aspiring poet William Cowper by Newton's preaching that he moved to Olney and from ...