A fictional imagining of the gentle but troubled zealot William Cowper-best known as a precursor to Romantics such as Wordsworth and Burns-Brian Lynch's The Winner of Sorrow brings to life the mind and times of an eighteenth-century poet. Intense and exhilarating, this is literary fiction at its finest-the reader will be hard-pressed not to rush ahead to see what happens next. Yet you'll want to savor every word as Lynch traces Cowper's tragic descent into madness, which is presented matter-of-factly so that the novel is not sentimental but austere, not precious but serious, and yet, remarkably, lively, sensuous, and blackly comic.
- ISBN10 1904301800
- ISBN13 9781904301806
- Publish Date October 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 August 2021
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint New Island Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English