TRAVEL WITH COWPER
By Paul Williams
Day One. 128 pages. £10.00
ISBN 978-1-84625-075-0
‘And do you still read Cowper?’ says Edmund Bertram to Fanny Price, the self-effacing heroine of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park — a novel begun only 11 years after Cowper’s death in 1800.
For many today, Cowper’s poetry may only be an interesting side reference in Jane Austen, while the reality of his Christian experience has been forgotten.
