Goldsmith and Cowper

Published: Nov. 23, 2010, 4:33 a.m.

Goldsmith and Cowper.\xa0 Topicality of "The Deserted Village." Enclosures.\xa0 Goldsmith compared to Gray: Fields beloved in vain.\xa0 Country Churchyard, and the speaker's exile from the world he describes.\xa0 The evanescence of that world that seemed timeless.\xa0 Cowper: Sapphics in the "Lines written during a period of insanity." "The Castaway."\xa0 Like Goldsmith and Gray, about vicarious experience.