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. VOL. III. LONDON: BALDWIN AND CRADOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1836. CONTENTS. MR. NEWTON'S PREFACE AFFIXED TO THE POEMS. PUBLICATION OF COWPER'S HOMER. EDITION OF MILTON PROJECTED. COMMENCE- MENT OF HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH HAYLEY. MRS. UNWIN'S PARA- MR. NEWTON requests that his Preface may be inserted She wishes to procure the Laureateship for him, upon Cowper deprecates any such attempt His own interest on the occasion solicited by a Welsh Intercourse with Thurlow renewed in consequence Johnson proposes that he should edite Milton Motives for undertaking this task |