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| - La Tâche (The Task: A Poem, in Six Books) est le poème le plus célèbre de William Cowper (1731 – 1800), commencé en 1783, et publié en 1785. Composé de six mille vers blancs (blank verse), il est divisé en six livres : Le Sofa, L'Horloge (The Timepiece), Le Jardin, Soirée d'hiver, Promenade un matin d'hiver et Promenade hivernale à midi. Le recueil est dédicacé à Lady Austen, la veuve de Sir Robert Austen d'Herendon (dans le Kent), une lointaine parente du père de Jane Austen, qui lui suggéra le thème du poème. Son influence sur William Wordsworth apparaît dans le dernier poème de ses Lyrical Ballads (Ballades lyriques) (1798) : Tintern Abbey. (fr)
- The Task: A Poem, in Six Books is a poem in blank verse by William Cowper published in 1785, usually seen as his supreme achievement. Its six books are called "The Sofa", "The Timepiece", "The Garden", "The Winter Evening", "The Winter Morning Walk" and "The Winter Walk at Noon". Beginning with a mock-Miltonic passage on the origins of the sofa, it develops into a discursive meditation on the blessings of nature, the retired life and religious faith, with attacks on slavery, blood sports, fashionable frivolity, lukewarm clergy and French despotism among other things. Cowper's subjects are those that occur to him naturally in the course of his reflections rather than being suggested by poetic convention, and the diction throughout is, for an 18th-century poem, unusually conversational and u (en)
- The Task: A Poem, in Six Books – poemat osiemnastowiecznego angielskiego poety Williama Cowpera, opublikowany w 1785. Tytuł The Task (Zadany temat) wziął się z tego, że pewna dama zażądała od poety napisania dzieła na błahy temat, konkretnie o zwykłej sofie. Rzeczywiście, pierwsza księga poematy nazywa się The Sofa. Poeta jednak odchodzi od lekkiego traktowania dzieła i porusza poważne kwestie religijne. Utwór jest napisany wierszem białym. (pl)
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| - La Tâche (The Task: A Poem, in Six Books) est le poème le plus célèbre de William Cowper (1731 – 1800), commencé en 1783, et publié en 1785. Composé de six mille vers blancs (blank verse), il est divisé en six livres : Le Sofa, L'Horloge (The Timepiece), Le Jardin, Soirée d'hiver, Promenade un matin d'hiver et Promenade hivernale à midi. Le recueil est dédicacé à Lady Austen, la veuve de Sir Robert Austen d'Herendon (dans le Kent), une lointaine parente du père de Jane Austen, qui lui suggéra le thème du poème. Son influence sur William Wordsworth apparaît dans le dernier poème de ses Lyrical Ballads (Ballades lyriques) (1798) : Tintern Abbey. (fr)
- The Task: A Poem, in Six Books is a poem in blank verse by William Cowper published in 1785, usually seen as his supreme achievement. Its six books are called "The Sofa", "The Timepiece", "The Garden", "The Winter Evening", "The Winter Morning Walk" and "The Winter Walk at Noon". Beginning with a mock-Miltonic passage on the origins of the sofa, it develops into a discursive meditation on the blessings of nature, the retired life and religious faith, with attacks on slavery, blood sports, fashionable frivolity, lukewarm clergy and French despotism among other things. Cowper's subjects are those that occur to him naturally in the course of his reflections rather than being suggested by poetic convention, and the diction throughout is, for an 18th-century poem, unusually conversational and unartificial. As the poet himself writes, ...my raptures are not conjur'd upTo serve occasions of poetic pomp,But genuine... — Book 1, lines 151-53 (en)
- The Task: A Poem, in Six Books – poemat osiemnastowiecznego angielskiego poety Williama Cowpera, opublikowany w 1785. Tytuł The Task (Zadany temat) wziął się z tego, że pewna dama zażądała od poety napisania dzieła na błahy temat, konkretnie o zwykłej sofie. Rzeczywiście, pierwsza księga poematy nazywa się The Sofa. Poeta jednak odchodzi od lekkiego traktowania dzieła i porusza poważne kwestie religijne. Utwór jest napisany wierszem białym. I sing the Sofa. I, who lately sangTruth, Hope, and Charity, and touch'd with aweThe solemn chords, and with a trembling hand,Escap'd with pain from that advent'rous flight,Now seek repose upon an humbler theme;The theme though humble, yet august and proudTh' occasion ─ for the Fair commands the song.William Cowper, The Task (pl)
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