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Olney Hymns

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place in English literature

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    In English literature: Poets and poetry after Pope

    …was William Cowper in his Olney Hymns (1779). Both are worthy successors to the richly inventive work of Isaac Watts in the first half of the century. Elsewhere, Cowper can write with buoyant humor and satiric relaxation, as when, for instance, he wryly observes from the safety of rural seclusion…

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