WORKS

OF

WILLIAM COWPER, Esq.

COMPRISING

HIS POEMS,

CORRESPONdence, and TRANSLATIONS.

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY THE EDITOR,

ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. LL. D.

POET LAUREATE, ETC.

VOI V

LONDON:

BALDWIN AND CRADOCK,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1836.

a criminal. Intention of translating Caraccioli aban-

doned. His own state of mind. Incendiary at Olney.

To the same.
March 11. On Mr. Newton's Letters to

an Independent minister. Cowper's notion of his extra-

mundane character. East India bill. Electioneering

at Olney

To the same. March 19. Caraccioli.

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Character of his

style. Cowper absent in company. Remarks on the

Lives of the Poets. Collins

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To the Rev. William Unwin. March 21. On the Lives

of the Poets. Beattie. Commission for a hat

To the Rev. John Newton. March 29. Visit from a

candidate. Mr. Scott's preaching

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To the same. April

Corporal East. Religious re-

marks. Earthquake in Calabria

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To the Rev. William Unwin. April 5. Beattie. Blair.

On the origin of language

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To the same. April 25. Blair shown to have censured

as a fault in Virgil what in reality is a beauty

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To the Rev. John Newton. April 26. Troubled with
rheumatism. Remarks on Beattie and Blair. Elec-
tioneering riots.

To the Rev. William Unwin. May 3. On painting the
face

To the same. May 8. John Gilpin; a sequel not to be

desired. Objections to publishing it with the Task.

Schools

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To the Rev. John Newton. May 22. Dr. Johnson's fa-
vourable opinion of his poems. Mr. Bull's pupils. Re-
marks on ministerial academies
To the same. June 5. Dr. Johnson

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To the Rev. Matthew Powley. June 25. Remarks on a

controversial treatise of Mr. Powley's against the Wes-

leyan doctrine of perfection. Extract from a letter of

Mr. Newton's advising that it be not published

To the Rev. William Unwin. July 3. Thanks for a Latin

dictionary. Intention of reading the classics. Remarks

on the tax upon candles. An ass trying his voice

To the Rev. John Newton. July 5. Jupiter's visit to the

Ethiopians. Question how far the wise men of anti-

quity believed in Paganism. His own indifference as

to politics. Taxes

To the Rev. William Unwin. July 12. Lady Austen.

Alteration proposed in some lines of Vincent Bourne's.

Hume's Essay on Suicide

To the same.

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Mrs. Powley's departure. Mr. M.
Lady Austen. Westminster grammar. Cold summer.

To the same. Lady Austen's illness. Her opinion of

Mr. Unwin

To the Rev. John Newton. July 19. Commemoration

of Handel. Bedlam. A frightful accident. An unex-

pected letter from Ostend

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To the Rev. John Newton. July 28. Mr. Newton at Lym-

ington. Mr. Gilpin. Allusion to his own state.

Newton's opponents

Mr.

To the Rev. William Unwin. Aug. 14. Tax on wheels

and horses. Walks to Weston. Remarks on the South

Sea islanders. Fashions. Restrictions of franking

To the Rev. John Newton. Aug. 16. Pleasures at Olney.

A balloon. Cook's last voyage

To the same. (Imperfect.) Mr. Teedon. Dispute about

erecting a pew.

To the Rev. William Unwin. Sept. 11. Progress in

transcribing the Task. Visit from Mr. Venn; his ap-

probation of the former volume. Cowper pleased, but

not elated with praise

To Joseph Hill, Esq. Sept. 11. Dr. Cotton

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To the Rev. John Newton. Sept. 18. His garden. Sweet

sounds of nature

To the Rev. William Unwin. Oct. 2. Punctuation.

Motto for the Task

To the Rev. John Newton. Oct. 9. Unconnected thought.

The mind sometimes vacant. Remarks on the death of

Captain Cook

To the Rev. William Unwin. Oct. 10. Sending the MSS.
of the Task. His aim in writing.

To the same. Oct. 20. Intention of completing his
poem on School-education, and dedicating it to Mr. Un-
win. Doubts concerning a publisher proposed. Cor-
rections examined. Mrs. Powley's illness

To the Rev. John Newton. Oct. 30. Sandwich island-

Knox's Essays. First mention to Mr. Newton of

ers.

To the Rev. William Unwin. Nov. 1. Glad that John-

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