Cowan, William, Rev. (M)

Surname: Cowan
Forename(s): William
Poet and clergyman. Identified as “Rev. W. Cowan” in the 1878 volume index for Good Words. Rector of Faughanvale, then St. Augustine’s, Londonderry. Author of Poems, Chiefly Sacred, Including Translations from some Ancient Latin Hymns (1879). Chambers’s Journal ledger entries give his address as The Rectory, Eglinton, Londonderry (poem published 31 July 1886; NLS Dep 341/369), The Rectory, Bishop St, Londonderry (14 February 1891, 14 November 1891; NLS Dep 341/370), and St. Augustines, Londonderry (19 March 1898; NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 112. (AC, DD, CC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 14
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Sweetheart, Farewell 1886-07-31 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12991
Autumn Days 1886-09-18 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12998
The River 1891-02-14 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13180
Every Year 1891-08-01 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13204
Bird-Music 1891-11-14 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13219
Dead Cities 1892-06 Victorian Magazine Poet 1535
Truth and Beauty 1893 Good Words Poet 5034
Old Voices 1893-01-28 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13281
A Bunch of Withered Violets 1893-03-11 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13287
Sonnet 1894-06-02 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13351
With Thee 1895-01-19 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12599
Hy-Brasail. The Isle of the Blest 1896-08-01 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12769
The Nightingale’s Song 1898-03-19 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12704
To Nature 1901-03-02 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12493