The Task and Other Poems by William Cowper

The Task and Other Poems

By William Cowper

Genre Poetry
Released 1800-01-01
Size 124.99 kB

Description

It is a poem in blank verse by William Cowper. Beginning with a mock-Miltonic passage on the origins of the sofa, it develops into a discursive meditation on the blessings of nature, the retired life and religious faith, with attacks on slavery, blood sports, fashionable frivolity, lukewarm clergy and French despotism among other things.

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