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In 1773, Cowper, experienced an attack of insanity, imagining not only that he was condemned to hell eternally, but that God was commanding him to make a sacrifice of his own life.

This essay describes some of the many ways in which Cowper’s anti-slavery works were recruited by American abolitionists – both white campaigners and African-American producers of slave …

Cowper had now reached the age of fifty, and was as yet unknown to the world. "A few light and agreeable poems, two hymns written at Huntingdon, with about sixty others composed at …

Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold; But, though slave they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's …

“There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood“ by William Cowper, 1731-1800 From: The Lutheran Hymnal (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1941)

I N G William Cowper wrote poems and hymns in England. His earl. er poems pointed to everyday life and country scenery. After many struggles with doubt and emotion. l upheaval, he wrote …