Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey

Baldwin and Cradock, 1836

CHAPTER	1

MR NEWTONS expectations of Cowpers perfect recovery	9

Anticipations of ill success	17

Dryden	26

His feelings with regard to the public of Olney	29

His happiness in Lady Austens society	38

Lady Austen suggests the Task	45

17	93

Revival of a school friendship with Mr Bagot	201

Refuses to exhibit a sample	207

Former opinion of Mr Newton and Mrs Unwin that	224

Greenhouse described to Lady Hesketh	229

Former state of gloomy contentment at Olney	251

CHAP XIV	262

Inconveniences of celebrity as an author	283

Mr Bean succeeds Moses Browne in the vicarage	289

Communication with them restored by a letter from Lady	100

CHAP XII	109

Rhythm royal	115

Of Dryden and Pope	118

Drayton	121

Cowper not a reader of poetry	126

Butler	128

313	137

22	144

Cowpers rash judgement concerning the Lives of the Poets	151

Mr Smith enables Cowper to relieve some poor families 53	166

TRANSLATION OF HOMER	185

the Gentlemans Magazine	194

Mrs Unwins providential escape from death by burning	295

Letter to Lady Hesketh June 10	303

Ominous feelings	309

Termination of the friendship with Lady Austen	315

His mothers picture sent him by his cousin Mrs Bodham	325

Remarks on his own case in reply to Mr Bull	330

Translates some letters from the Latin of a Dutch clergy	331

Van Liers narrative	341

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS	349

The art of poetry made easy	355

success	361

Specimen of the manner in which Pope corrected his trans	367

Title	Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey Volume 2 of The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations. With a Life of the Author by the Editor, Robert Southey, Robert Southey
Author	William Cowper
Contributors	Baldwin & Cradock, Chiswick Press
Publisher	Baldwin and Cradock, 1836
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	22 Jan 2009

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