"Have you ever read the letters of the poet Cowper? He had nothing—literally nothing—to tell anyone about; private life in a sleepy country town where Evangelical distrust of "the world" denied him even such miserable society as the place would have afforded. And yet one reads a whole volume of his letters with unfailing interest. How his tooth came loose at dinner, how he made a hutch for a tame hare, what he is doing about his cucumbers—all this he makes one follow as if the fate of empires hung on it."
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AbolitionistsPoets from EnglandTranslators from EnglandHymnwriters from EnglandAnglicans from the United Kingdom
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C. S. Lewis, letter to his father (25 February 1928) — in Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), p. 124
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William Cowper
William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist.
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