William Cowper

William Cowper was the son of John Cowper, rector of Great Berkampstead. At Westminster School (1742-49) he was part of the quartet of poetical wits that included Cumberland, Churchill, and Lloyd; he studied law at the Middle Temple (1752), worked as a commissioner of bankrupts (1759-64), and wrote satires and periodical essays. A government career was abruptly terminated by a first bout of mental illness in 1763. Cowper spent time in a sanatorium and was treated by Nathaniel Cotton before going to live the Rev. Morley Unwin, an evangelical minister. Upon his death, Cowper and Mrs. Unwin moved to Olney, where he wrote most of the poems for which he is remembered.

TEXT RECORDS:

1763A Dissertation on the Modern Ode.
1781Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale in Verse.
1782The Winter Nosegay.
1788The Morning Dream.

PUBLICATIONS:

Olney hymns [with John Newton]. 1779.
T. Scott, The Force of Truth [ed. Cowper]. 1779.
Anti-Thelyphora: a tale in verse. 1781.
Poems. 2 vols, 1782.
The task, a poem, in six books. 1785.
The history of John Gilpin. 1785.
Homer, The Iliad and the Odyssey, translated into blank verse by Cowper. 2 vols, 1791.
Maria F. C. Cowper, Original poems by a lady [ed. Cowper]. 1792.
James Hurdis, Sir Thomas More [ed. Cowper]. 1792.
Latin and Italian poems of Milton translated into English verse, and a fragment of a commentary on Paradise lost by the late William Cowper, ed. William Hayley. 1808.
Memoir of the early life of William Cowper written by himself. 1816.
Correspondence, ed. John Johnson. 1817.
Private correspondence. 2 vols, 1824.
Poems, the early productions of William Cowper, now first published. 1826.
Autobiography. 1835.
Works: poems, correspondence, and translations, ed. Robert Southey. 15 vols, 1835-37.
Correspondence, ed. Thomas Wright. 1904.
Complete poetical works, ed. H. S. Milford. 1905.
Unpublished and uncollected letters, ed. Thomas Wright. 1925.
John Milton, Poetical works, Latin and Italian [trans. Cowper]. 1935.
Correspondence of John Wilkes and Charles Churchill, ed. Edward H. Weatherly. 1954.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Westminster School
Middle Temple
Inns of Court

poet
translator
editor

The Connoisseur
St. James's Magazine
Gentleman's Magazine
Analytical Review
General Magazine and Impartial Review

Bp. Lewis Bagot
Rev. Moses Browne
Walter Churchey
Rev. Charles Churchill
George Colman
Dr. Nathaniel Cotton
Richard Cumberland
Rev. John Duncombe
William Duncombe
William Hayley
Rev. James Hurdis
Robert Lloyd
Judith Cowper Madan
Thomas Park
Rev. Richard Polwhele
Thomas Clio Rickman
George Romney
Anna Seward
Charlotte Smith
Bonnell Thornton

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL; DLB.

"Particulars of Mr. Cowper and his Poems" Gentleman's Magazine 56 (January 1786) 5; Catalogue of five hundred Celebrated Authors (1788); Roach's Beauties of the Poets (1794); "William Cowper" Gentleman's Magazine 65 (1795) ii 732-33; David Rivers, Literary Memoirs of Living Authors (1798); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 70 (May, June 1800) 487, 584; "Account of William Cowper" European Magazine 37 (May 1800) 365-68; obituary in Monthly Magazine 9 (June 1800) 498-500; "Biographical Account of Mr. Cowper" Monthly Magazine and American Review [New York] 3 (September 1800) 224-28; Samuel Greatheed, "Particulars of the Life of Cowper" European Magazine 38 (October 1800) 250-56; Annual Register for 1800 (1800) 12; "Memoirs of William Cowper" Lady's Monthly Museum 6 (February 1801) 85-89 [portrait]; "Account of William Cowper" Scots Magazine 63 (March 1801) 157-61; obituary in Universal Magazine 1801 (May 1801) 332-35; William Toone, "Poems of Cowper" Monthly Mirror 12 (September 1801) 167-69; "Thomson and Cowper" Monthly Mirror 12 (October 1801) 230-32; Poetical Register for 1801 (1802); "Remarks on Cowper and Darwin" Monthly Magazine 16 (September 1803) 100-03; "Cowper, the Poet" Boston Weekly Magazine 2 (5 November 1803) 5-6; Poetical Register for 1802 (1803); William Hayley, Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803-04); Francis Jeffrey, "Review of Hayley's Cowper" Edinburgh Review 2 (1803); Cowper Illustrated, by a Series of Views in or near the Park of Weston Underwood, Bucks (1803); "Biographical Sketches: Cowper" Flowers of Literature for 1803 (1804) 23-29 [portrait]; "Milton and Cowper" Flowers of Literature for 1803 (1804) 54-57; "Cowper" The Hive [Lancaster PA] (11 January 1804) 11; "Brief Account of William Cowper" Literary Tablet [Hanover NH] 1 (3, 17 May 1804) 74-75, 78-79; Samuel Egerton Brydges, in Censura Literaria 1 (1805) 205-16; "Observations on the Life and Writings of Cowper" Literary Miscellany [Cambridge MA] 1 (1805) 70-77; "Character of Cowper" Literary Magazine and American Register 7 (June 1807) 372-77; Robert Southey, Specimens of Later English Poets (1807); "William Cowper" Belfast Monthly Magazine 4 (January 1810) 37-43; Alexander Chalmers, English Poets (1810); Nathan Drake, Essays illustrative of the Rambler (1810); Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes (1812-15); "William Cowper" The Champion (23 October 1814) 342-43; "Cowper's Poems" North American Review 2 (January 1816) 233-41; Stephen Simpson, "Life of William Cowper" The Portico [Baltimore] 1-2 (January-October 1816) 53-63, 121-32, 218-33, 307-15, 409-18, 480-94, 37-45, 136-42, 394-304; "Works and Genius of Cowper" The Portico [Baltimore] 3 (February-May 1817) 106-14, 202-06, 276-82, 389-97; "Essays on Cowper's the Task" Christian Observer 17-18 (May-June 1818, January-April 1819) 300-04, 374-78, 21-25, 86-91, 226-31, 363-67; William Hazlitt, Lectures (1818); Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets (1819); John Aikin, Select Works of the British Poets (1820); "Poets of Rural Life: Cowper" New Monthly Magazine 2 (1821) 153-57; "Character of the late William Cowper" Talisman 2 (1821) 33-34; "Eminent Authors: Cowper" Literary Speculum 1 (March 1822) 308-10; Reginal Heber, "Private Correspondence of Cowper" Quarterly Review 30 (1823); "Cowper's House at Olney" Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction 4 (1824) 89; William Hazlitt, Select British Poets (1824); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); "Genius of Cowper" New York Mirror 3 (22 October 1825) 102; Biographical Magazine 1 (1829) [portrait]; George B. Cheever, Studies in Poetry ... Elegant Extracts (1830); The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent Persons (1832-34); Allan Cunningham, "Literature of the Last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum No. 313 (26 October 1833) 714-15; W. B. O. Peabody, "Life of Cowper" North American Review 38 (1834); life by Robert Southey (1835); Robert Aris Willmott, Sacred Poets, Second Series (1838); Henry T. Tuckerman, "Cowper" Southern Literary Messenger [Richmond] 6 (December 1840) 838-42; Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); Ebebezer Elliott, "Cowper and Burns" Edinburgh Magazine 9 (1842); George B. Cheever, Lectures on the Life, Genius and Insanity of Cowper (1843); William Howitt, Homes and Haunts of the ... British Poets (1847); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Goldwin Smith, William Cowper (1880); The English Poets, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880); George E. Woodberry, "Cowper's Letters" The Nation 39 (1884); Thomas Wright, The Life of William Cowper (1892); Austin Dobson, "In Cowper's Arbour" in Eighteenth-Century Vignettes (1892-96); J. C. Tarver, "Cowper's Ouse" Macmillan's Magazine 82 (1900); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); Edward Dowden, "Cowper and William Hayley" in Essays Modern and Elizabethan (1910) 151-90; Old Westminsters (1928); Lodowick C. Hartley, "The Stricken Deer and his Contemporary Reputation" Studies in Philology 36 (1939) 637-50; Fairchild, in Religious Trends in English Poetry (1942); Charles Ryskamp, William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esquire (1959); Norma Russell, A Bibliography of Cowper to 1837 (1963); Morris Golden, "Churchill's Literary Influence on Cowper" JEGP 66 (1967) 655-65; Valentine, British Establishment (1970); Butt, OHEL (1979); James King, William Cowper (1986); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for William Cowper:

1.	1782  Edmund Cartwright, in Review of Cowper, Poems; The Monthly Review 67 (October 1782) 262-63.
2.	1782  Anonymous, in Review of Cowper, Poems; The Critical Review 53 (April 1782) 287-88.
3.	1786  Anna Seward to T. S. Whalley, 1 February 1786; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:120-21.
4.	1786  Hannah More to her sister, February 1786; Memoirs of Hannah More (1835) 1:235.
5.	1786  Robert Potter to Edward Jerningham, April 1786; Lewis Bettany, Edward Jerningham and his Friends (1919) 353.
6.	1786  Somebody, "To the Author of the Task" London Chronicle (23 November 1786) 503.
7.	1786  Anonymous, "Cowper and Homer" Public Advertiser (5 June 1786).
8.	1786  A. B., "Particulars of Mr. Cowper, and his Poems" Gentleman's Magazine 56 (January 1786) 2-3.
9.	1787  A Lady, "Lines addressed to William Cowper, Esq. on reading his Poems" Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (27 September 1787).
10.	1789  Walter Churchey, in "Lines addressed to William Cowper, Esq." Poems and Imitations of the British Poets (1789) 793-95.
11.	1789  R. B., "Verses written upon a blank Leaf in Cowper's Poems belonging to a Lady" Gentleman's Magazine 59 (April 1789) 353.
12.	1790 ca.  William Hayley, "To our most kind and most dear Cowper" 1790 ca.; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 3:227.
13.	1791 ca.  Thomas Clio Rickman, "Epistle to William Cowper, on the Publication of his Translation of Homer. Accompanied by a Poem of the Author's" 1791 ca.; Poetical Scraps (1803) 2:49-50.
14.	1791  Anonymous, "Homer" Morning Chronicle (27 August 1791).
15.	1791  Anonymous, "A Choice Recepit to make a Translation of Homer" Morning Chronicle (1 September 1791).
16.	1792  John Bennet, in "Letters to a young Lady" American Museum [Philadelphia] 11 (January 1792) 11.
17.	1792  Harley, "To William Cowper, Esq; written in the Year 1792" Port Folio [Philadelphia] 4 (11 February 1804) 48.
18.	1793  Neophytus, "On Political Pursuits, to W. Cowper, Esq." Literary Magazine and British Review 10 (April 1793) 236.
19.	1795  Richard Polwhele, "Lines, said to have been addressed to Mr. Cowper, with a Present of The Devonshire and Cornwall Poems" Gentleman's Magazine 65 (July 1795) 600.
20.	1795 ca.  Anonymous, "Sonnet to the Author of The Task. Written in the life-time of Cowper" 1795 ca.; Port Folio [Philadelphia] 4 (9 June 1804) 183.
21.	1796  Charles Lamb, "To the Poet Cowper on his Recovery from an Indisposition" The Monthly Magazine 2 (December 1796) 889.
22.	1798  Thomas James Mathias, in Pursuits of Literature (1798) 354.
23.	1800  A Gentleman at Bath, "On receiving an Engraving of Mr. Cowper after a Sketch painted by Lawrence" The True Briton (8 March 1800).
24.	1800  C., 25th reg. infantry, "Elegy on the Death of Wm Cowper, Esq." Bath Chronicle (8 May 1800).
25.	1800  Anonymous, in Obituary, The Monthly Magazine 9 (June 1800) 500
26.	1800  Anonymous, "Lines occasioned by the last Publication of Cowper's Poems, in 1798, with some Additions and a Preface by the Rev. Mr. —" Gentleman's Magazine 70 (June 1800) 565.
27.	1800  De Willoughby, "Sonnet to Mr. Cowper, Author of the Task, &c." Gentleman's Magazine 70 (June 1800) 565.
28.	1800  F. T. C., "Sonnet, on the much-lamented Death of William Cowper" Gentleman's Magazine 70 (July 1800) 668.
29.	1800  X. Z., "Original Anecdotes of Cowper" Monthly Magazine and American Review [New York] 3 (December 1800) 409-10.
30.	1800  Anna Seward to Thomas Park, 25 September 1800; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:318-26.
31.	1801  M., "Sonnet to the Memory of the Poet Cowper" Gentleman's Magazine 71 (February 1801) 165.
32.	1801  William Holloway, "Extemporary Lines on reading Cowper's Task" European Magazine 40 (September 1801) 203.
33.	1801  Leigh Hunt, "Epitaph on Cowper" Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801 (1802) 78.
34.	1802  W. T., "Elegy, to the Memory of William Cowper, Esq." Gentleman's Magazine 72 (November 1802) 1044.
35.	1802  O., "Sonnet to the Memory of William Cowper" The Monthly Magazine 14 (August 1802) 53.
36.	1802  Anonymous, "Sonnet to the River Ouse" European Magazine 41 (March 1802) 208.
37.	1802  Paul Allen, "To the Memory of that excellent English Poet — Cowper" South-Carolina State Gazette and Timothy's Daily Adviser [Charleston] (23 April 1802).
38.	1803  Thomas Clio Rickman, "Epitaph on William Cowper" Poetical Scraps (1803) 1:106.
39.	1803  R., "Sonnet on the much-lamented Death of William Cowper, Esq." European Magazine 43 (April 1803) 304.
40.	1803  Thomas Park, "On receiving, as a posthumous Memoiral, a pair of green-glass Spectacles, which had belonged to the Author of The Task" Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1803 (1805) 337.
41.	1804  Homunculus Lepidissimus, "Lines, incribed in a Blank Leaf of Cowper's Poems, presented to a Lady" Morning Chronicle (1 November 1804).
42.	1805  C—n, "On reading the Life of William Cowper" The Monthly Magazine 19 (February 1805) 39.
43.	1805  Eliza, "Upon reading Hayley's Life and Letters of Cowper" Scots Magazine 67 (July 1805) 542.
44.	1805  Anonymous, "An Elegy on the Death of Wm. Cowper" Evening Fire-Side [Philadelphia] 1 (21 December 1805) 402-03.
45.	1805  Anonymous, "Lines written after reading Hayley's Life of Cowper" Port Folio [Philadelphia] 5 (6 April 1805) 103.
46.	1805  Samuel Egerton Brydges, "On the most valuable Materials of Biography, with Extracts from the Letters, and Remarks on the Character, both literary and moral, of Cowper" Censura Literaria 1 (1805) 205-16.
47.	1806  John Aikin, in Letters to a Young Lady (1806) 286-87.
48.	1806  William Lisle Bowles, "On the Harp and Despair of Cowper" La Belle Assemblee 1 (April 1806) 166.
49.	1806 ca.  Sobrino, "Sonnet addressed to the Lyre of the Cowper" Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1806-07 (1811) 181.
50.	1806  William Lisle Bowles, Note to Prologue to the Satires; Works of Pope, ed. Bowles (1806) 7:6.
51.	1807  Robert Southey, in Specimens of the Later English Poets (1807) 3:471.
52.	1809  Reginald Heber to John Thornton, 15 February 1809; Life of Reginald Heber (1830) 1:334-35.
53.	1809  Anonymous, "Stanzas presented, with Cowper's Poems, to Mary Viscountess Bernard, on the Day of her Marriage" Poetical Register for 1808-09 (1812) 220-21.
54.	1810  Cestriensis, "Lines addressed to a Lady with a Copy of Cowper's Poems" Morning Chronicle (31 August 1810).
55.	1810  Dr. Randolph of Bath, "Verses on receiving a Print of Cowper, engraved from a Sketch painted by Lawrence" Poetical Register for 1810-11 (1814) 274.
56.	1812  Bernard Barton, "On Reading Hayley's Life of Cowper" Barton, Metrical Effusions (1812) 212-15.
57.	1812  Henry Crabb Robinson, 6 May 1812; Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1870; 1872) 1:199.
58.	1812  Charles Caleb Colton, in Hypocrisy, a Satire (1812) 76-77.
59.	1813  Anonymous, in "Genius. Pronounced before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at their last Anniversary" General Repository and Review [Cambridge MA] 4 (October 1813) 383-84.
60.	1814  Thomas Barnes, "Portraits of Authors. William Cowper" The Champion (23 October 1814) 342.
61.	1816  Anonymous, "English Worthies: Cowper" European Magazine 69 (March 1816) 223-24.
62.	1817  Leigh Hunt, in "Poems by John Keats" The Examiner (1 June 1817) 345.
63.	1817  Anonymous, "To the Memory of W. Cowper, Esq." Ladies' Weekly Museum [New York] NS 6 (19 July 1817) 189-90.
64.	1819  Anonymous, "Cowper" The Theater, or Dramatic and Literary Mirror 2 (2 October 1819) 110.
65.	1820  Anonymous, in Retrospective Review 1 (1820) 57.
66.	1821  Emily Taylor?, "Poets of Rural Life. — Cowper" New Monthly Magazine NS 2 (August 1821) 153-57.
67.	1821  Anonymous, "On a half-length Portrait of the Poet Cowper, imitated from the Latin of Beauhausen" Imperial Magazine 3 (March 1821) 241.
68.	1821  Anonymous, "On the much-lamented Death of William Cowper, Esq. Author of the Task" Imperial Magazine 3 (July 1821) 615.
69.	1822  Tobias Oldschool, Gentleman, "Eminent Authors: Cowper" Literary Speculum 1 (March 1822) 308-10.
70.	1824  Bernard Barton, "William Cowper" Barton, Poetic Vigils (1824) 291.
71.	1824  William Hazlitt, in Select British Poets (1824); Works, ed. Howe (1932) 9:242.
72.	1824  Carlos Wilcox, in "The Religion of Taste" 1824; Remains (1828) 197-98.
73.	1824  S. J., "On a broken Pinnacle of Cowper's Summer House at Olney" Gentleman's Magazine 94 (Supplement to Part II, 1824) 634.
74.	1824  Bryan Waller Procter, in Effigies Poeticae, or, the Portraits of the British Poets (1824) 106.
75.	1825 ca.  Henry Mackenzie, Anecdotes and Egotisms, 1825 ca.; ed. Thompson (1927) 165-66.
76.	1827  Ann Radcliffe, "On Hayley's Life of Cowper" The Ariel [Philadelphia] 1 (6 October 1827) 97.
77.	1827  William Goodhugh, in The English Gentleman's Library Manual (1827) 296-98.
78.	1828  John Wilson, in Review of Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries; Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 364).
79.	1830  Samuel Egerton Brydges, in "Essay on the Genius of Collins" Collins, Poems (1830; 1865) lxv-lxvi.
80.	1830  George Barrell Cheever, in Studies in Poetry ... A copious Collection of Elegant Extracts (1830) 180-82.
81.	1833  Allan Cunningham, in "Biographical and Critical History of the Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (26 October 1833) 714-15.
82.	1851  David Macbeth Moir, in Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1856) 8-9.
83.	1852  Mary Russell Mitford, in "Fine Single Poems" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 436-39.
84.	1880  Thomas Humphry Ward, in The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880) 3:422-33.
85.	1882  Epes Sargent, in Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry (1882) 207.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for William Cowper:

1.	1788  Anonymous, in Catalogue of five hundred Celebrated Authors (1788).
2.	1792  Anonymous, "Biographical List of Living English Poets" Gentleman's Magazine 62 (July 1792) 615-16.
3.	1800  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 70 (May, June 1800) 487, 584.
4.	1801  Anonymous, "William Cowper" Universal Magazine 108 (May 1801) 332-35.
5.	1804  Francis William Blagdon, "Biographical Sketches: William Cowper, Esq." Flowers of Literature for 1803 (1804) 23-29.
6.	1809  Nathan Drake, in Essays Illustrative of the Rambler (1809-10) 2:330-36.
7.	1810  Alexander Chalmers, in Works of the English Poets (1810) 18:584-602.
8.	1820  John Aikin, in Select Works of the British Poets (1820) 723.
9.	1822  Anonymous, in Chiswick British Poets (1822) 79:5-20.
10.	1832  William Clarke and Robert Shelton Mackenzie, in The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most eminent Persons who have flourished in Great Britain (1832-34) 3:357-60.
11.	1844  Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 2:257-60.
12.	1847  William Howitt, "William Cowper" Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets (1847) 1:393-409.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1754  Robert Lloyd:   William Cowper, in "Epistle to Robert Lloyd" 1754; Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 8:15.
2.	1765  Dr. Nathaniel Cotton:   William Cowper to Lady Hesketh, 4 July 1765; William Hayley, Life of Cowper (1803-04, 1806) 1:51-52.
3.	1768  Judith Cowper Madan:   William Cowper to Judith Cowper Madan, 28 June 1768; Correspondence, ed. Thomas Wright (1904) 1:103-04.
4.	1777  Thomas Gray:   William Cowper to Joseph Hill, April 1777; Correspondence, ed. Thomas Wright (1904) 1:141.
5.	1781  Rev. Isaac Watts:   William Cowper to John Newton, 18 September 1781; in Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 15:92.
6.	1782  Joseph Addison:   William Cowper, in "Table Talk" Cowper, Poems (1782) 33-34.
7.	1782  Lord Chesterfield:   William Cowper, in "The Progress of Error" Poems (1782) 58-59.
8.	1782  Rev. Charles Churchill:   William Cowper, in "Table Talk" Cowper, Poems (1782) 35-36.
9.	1782  Bp. Robert Lowth:   William Cowper to William Unwin, 9 February 1782; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 4:181-82.
10.	1782  Alexander Pope:   William Cowper, in "Table Talk" Cowper, Poems (1782) 33-34.
11.	1782  Matthew Prior:   William Cowper to William Unwin, 17 January 1782; in Hayley, Life of Cowper (1803-04; 1806) 1:294-95.
12.	1784  Bp. Lewis Bagot:   William Cowper to Rev. John Newton, 30 October 1784; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 5:114-15.
13.	1784  James Beattie:   William Cowper to Rev. William Unwin, 5 April 1784; Forbes, Life and Writings of James Beattie (1806) 2:136.
14.	1784  William Collins:   William Cowper to Rev. John Newton, 19 March 1784; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 5:11.
15.	1784  Dr. Nathaniel Cotton:   William Cowper to Joseph Hill, 11 September 1784; Life and Posthumous Writings, ed. William Hayley (1806) 2:242.
16.	1784  Samuel Johnson:   William Cowper to Rev. William Unwin, 21 March 1784; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 5:12-13.
17.	1784  Rev. John Jortin:   William Cowper to John Newton, 25 January 1784; Hayley, Life of Cowper (1803-04, 1806) 2:164.
18.	1784  Rev. Vicesimus Knox:   William Cowper to Rev. John Newton, 30 October 1784; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 5:94-95.
19.	1785  Bp. Lewis Bagot:   William Cowper, in "Tirocinium" The Task (1785) 315-16.
20.	1785  Rev. Hugh Blair:   William Cowper to William Unwin, 5 April 1784; Hayley, Life of Cowper (1803-04, 1806) 2:192-93.
21.	1785  Rev. William Dodd:   William Cowper, in The Task (1785) 64-65.
22.	1785  Rev. Francis Fawkes:   William Cowper to Lady Hesketh, 30 November 1785; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 5:184.
23.	1785  John Pinkerton:   William Cowper to Rev. William Unwin, 23 October 1785; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 5:169-70.
24.	1786  Rev. Moses Browne:   William Cowper to Lady Hesketh, 25 May 1786; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 5:322.
25.	1786  Walter Churchey:   William Cowper to Walter Churchey, 13 December 1786; Correspondence, ed. Wright (1904) 3:124-25.
26.	1786  Walter Churchey:   William Cowper to Walter Churchey, 24 December 1790; Correspondence, ed. Wright (1904) 4:13-14.
27.	1786  Rev. Charles Churchill:   William Cowper to Rev. William Unwin, 1786; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 6:10-11.
28.	1786  George Colman:   William Cowper to Joseph Hill, 9 June 1786; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 5:331.
29.	1786  John Dennis:   William Cowper to Rev. Walter Bagot, 4 July 1786; in Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 5:344-45.
30.	1787  Robert Burns:   William Cowper to Samuel Rose, 24 July 1787; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 6:54-55.
31.	1787  Henry Mackenzie:   William Cowper to Lady Hesketh, 27 November 1787; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 6:87.
32.	1788  Richard Cumberland:   William Cowper to Mrs. King, 6 December 1788; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 6:205.
33.	1788  Elizabeth Montagu:   William Cowper, "On the beautiful Feather-Hangings, designed for Mrs. Montagu" Gentleman's Magazine 58 (June 1788) 542.
34.	1789  Rev. Thomas Twining:   William Cowper to Mrs. King, 22 April 1789; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 6:234-35.
35.	1790  Rev. Joseph Warton:   William Cowper to Samuel Rose, 2 February 1790; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 6:180-81.
36.	1791  Rev. Timothy Dwight:   William Cowper to James Cogswell, 15 June 1791; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 7:32.
37.	1792  William Drummond:   William Cowper to Thomas Park, 10 March 1792; in Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 7:325.
38.	1792  William Hayley:   William Cowper to John Johnson, 20 May 1792; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 7:113.
39.	1792  Thomas Park:   William Cowper to Thomas Park, 10 March 1792; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 7:324.
40.	1792  Rev. Richard Polwhele:   William Cowper to Richard Polwhele, 15 June 1792; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 1:298-99.
41.	1793  George Chapman:   William Cowper to Thomas Park, 15 July 1793; in Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 7:332.
42.	1793  Dr. Erasmus Darwin:   William Cowper, "To Dr. Darwin" 1793; Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1799) viii-ix.
43.	1793  Henry Fielding:   William Cowper to Samuel Rose, 8 December 1793; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 7:245.
44.	1793  Rev. James Hurdis:   William Cowper to Rev. Walter Bagot, 10 November 1793; Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 7:241.
45.	1793  John Milton:   William Cowper to William Hayley, 24 February 1793; in Southey, Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 7:190-91.
46.	1798 ca.  Rev. John Wesley:   William Cowper, in "Conversation" 1798 ca.; Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05) 4:113.