Compare And Contrast Poe And William Cowper

Introduction: The idea of poetry falls under being a literary work in which intensity, passion, emotion and expression is produced within a series of stanzas containing rhythm, style and aesthetics. Within the 18th century, William Cowper was a man of religion as the century was filled with distinct and specific types of style such as metaphysical poetry. On the other hand, Edgar Allen Poe was one of the most famous poets of the 19th centuries and had a darker presence within his poetry, as that century was filled with a more range of imagination. Cowper and Poe both have many differences throughout a 2-century difference, but can compare as well within poetry techniques and topics. Both poets like to have a dark aura in their poetry making

The poet’s mother died when he was six and Cowper was sent to Dr. Pittman’s boarding school, where he was routinely bullied. In 1748, he enrolled in the Middle Temple in order to pursue a law degree. Shortly thereafter, he fell in love with Theodora Cowper, a cousin. Her father did not approve, and their relationship ended in 1755. Cowper wrote a sequence of poems, Delia, chronicling this affair but the book was not published until 1825.
In 1763, through family connections, he accepted a clerkship of the journals in the House of Lords. A rival faction, however, challenged his appointment and the ordeal caused Cowper to enter Nathaniel Cotton’s Collegium Insanorum at St. Albans. While there he converted to Evangelicalism. In 1765, he moved to Huntingdon and took a room with the Rev. They were not separated until her death in 1796. While at Olney, Cowper became close friends with the Evangelical clergyman John Newton; together they co-authored the Olney Hymns, which was first published in 1779 and included Newton’s famous hymn “Amazing Grace.” Of the 68 hymns Cowper wrote, “Oh for a closer walk with God” and “God moves in a mysterious way” are the most well