The Life of William Cowper

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Haskell House, 1892 - 681 من الصفحات
Mr. Wright, a long-time Cowper scholar, wrote an extremely comprehensive biography of the pre-Romantic 18th century English poet. He was able to avail himself of collections of Cowper's letters & of the unpublished journals of a number of Cowper's friends. Illus.
 

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The Nonsense Club
64
Charles Churchill
72
Death of the Poets Father July 9 1756
75
The Farewell to Theodora probably 1756
77
In Love a Second Time The Greenwich Beauty
79
Literary and other Amusements
80
Cowper at the Inner Temple
85
Cowpers Poverty
88
The House of Lords Affair 1763
90
At Margate August and September 1763
93
The Second Derangement
96
Laudanum and the River November 1763
98
On the Brink of Eternity
102
Tirocinium
105
CHAPTER XIII
106
Damned below Judas
107
CHAPTER V
113
The Clouds begin to Break
115
Dick Colman
121
CHAPTER VI
125
Early Days at Huntingdon
127
Huntingdon in Cowpers Days
129
Sephus and Lady Hesketh
131
The Knight of the Bloody Spur
134
The Unwins
136
Cowper as an Economist
140
WITH THE UNWINS
145
Cowper thinks of becoming a Clergyman
151
January and the Moon February 1790
156
The Removal to Olney
159
THE INSEPARABLE FRIENDS
163
Early Days at Olney
171
The Influence of John Newton on Cowper
179
The Removal of Unwin to Stock and other Incidents of 1769
183
The Death of his Brother John March 1770
189
The Commencement of Homer November 12 1784
195
At the Bull 1771
196
CHAPTER IX
205
CHAPTER X
215
Cowpers Fondness for Fish
221
Cowper thinks of turning Tutor and endeavours to get Pupils July 1776
223
Cowper makes his Will May 1777
224
Lord Dartmouth at Olney June 1777
225
The Fire at Olney October 1777
227
The Death of Sir Thomas Hesketh April 1778
229
Thurlow made Lord Chancellor
230
Cherry Fair June 1778
231
At Gayhurst September 1779
237
Newton removes to London January 1780
240
CHAPTER XI
243
The Poet draws Mountains and Dabchicks
245
Cowpers Whisking Wit
248
A Head once endued with a Legal Periwig
251
Mrs Powley at Olney May 1780
253
Cowper as a Letterwriter
254
The Lacemakers June 1780
257
The AntiThelyphthora December 1780
260
CHAPTER XII
265
THE RECONCILIATION or from the publi
297
Lady Austen again June 1782
303
John Gilpin October 1782
310
Mr Smiths Almoner November 1782
317
THE WRITING OF THE TASK
327
Thurlow Colman and Bacon
335
The Arrival of Lady Hesketh at Olney June 1786
426
The Old House at Olney
435
The Death of Unwin November 29 1786
441
The Ladies of the Inkbottle and the Goodnatured Padre
443
Johnny Higgins
444
Mr Churchey and Samuel Rose
448
The Fourth Derangement January to June 1787 450
450
A Day at Chicheley
455
The Mortuary Verses November 1787
457
Mr Clotworthy Rowley February 1788
459
The Frogs
460
The Drolleries of Cowpers Letters
465
CHAPTER XVII
469
The Five Slave Ballads Spring 1788
471
Mr Bean March 1788
473
Cowper in at the Death
474
At Chicheley again May 24 1788
476
Mungo the Marquis and Beau
479
Dr Ash and Dr Grindon
481
Visit of Newton the Bouton de Rose and Lady Hesketh The Household at Weston July and August 1788
484
Cowpers Oak
487
He begins the Odyssey September 24 1788
492
Mrs Kings Douceurs
493
A HighBuck Holiday January 1789
495
Miss Hannah
496
The Kings Recovery February 1789
498
The Cuckoo Clock and the Hamper June 1789
500
CHAPTER XVIII
503
Johnny of Norfolk
504
The Laureateship
518
CHAPTER XIX
525
The Four Ages May 1791
531
The Bodhams stay a Parsons Week
538
Thomas Park February 18 1792
548
Cowper Plays the Commentator
556
Carwardine the Generous
564
The Journey to Eartham August
568
CHAPTER XXI
573
The Portrait by Romney August 26th
575
The Epitaph on Fop August 25th
577
Hurdis Charlotte Smith and Little Tom
579
The Return to Weston
581
CHAPTER XXII
585
The Miltonic Trap December 1792
594
Pushpin with Homer 1793
596
The Quadruple Alliance July 7 1793
604
Sam and the Shed July 27 1793
605
The Attentions of Cowpers Friends
607
The Portrait by Lawrence and the Lines To Mary October 8 1793
615
Hayleys Second Visit November 1793
619
The Arrival of Lady Hesketh November 1793
622
CHAPTER XXIII
627
Hayleys Third Visit April 1794
630
He walks incessantly Backwards and Forwards Spring of 1795
632
Hannahs Extravagance
633
IN NORFOLK
637
Dunham Lodge October 1795September 1796
645
What can it Signify? April 25 1800
655
B Some Relics of Cowper and their present Owners 1891
665
Cowpers Works
673
243
675
251 253 254 257 260
678
265
679
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