Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . a satiric verse which stands to that of Pope Thein the relation of the oalcen cudgel to the rapier, he turned the ^^V:^^laculty and the weapon to such effective account in the Baviad the Mseviad, his twofamous lampoons on theDelia Cruscan school, as toreduce that incorporatedsociety of idiots to its con-stituent atoms of individualimbecility. The protest of WilliamCowper against the poeticerrors of
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . a satiric verse which stands to that of Pope Thein the relation of the oalcen cudgel to the rapier, he turned the ^^V:^^laculty and the weapon to such effective account in the Baviad the Mseviad, his twofamous lampoons on theDelia Cruscan school, as toreduce that incorporatedsociety of idiots to its con-stituent atoms of individualimbecility. The protest of WilliamCowper against the poeticerrors of the time was ofa more general and moreserious, if of a less directand conscious, was a scholar, ahymnodist, a writer ofmoral and satirical verse,before he presented him-self to the world in thatcharacter of a true andgenuinely if not very deeply inspired poet of nature in which his name survives. In the year 1784 he had notpublished—indeed he had not yet been moved to write—anything in the latter character at all. Whether he Avouldhave reached posterity as an important or commanding figurein English letters by the projective force of such poems as. ANNA SEWARD. (After George Romney.) 602 REVOLUTION AND REACTION. [1784 the Progress of Error, Hope, Charity, and other homilieson the cardinal virtues, or even as Table Talk, the mostvigorous of them all, it is now impossible to say. They werepoems essentially of a bygone genre—poems reminiscent of apoetic past, and it was inevitable that they should be eclipsedfor us by that portion of his poetry which belonged to, or atany rate foreshadowed, the poetic future. Yet they may beread with profit, indeed they should not be omitted, by an}-one who desires to take the full measure of Cowpers last mentioned poem in particular, with its manypassages of stirring and occasionally even lofty rhetoric, ofadmirably just and searching criticism, and its conspicuousmastery of the difficult art of reas
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