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Cowper, William (1731 - 1800)

Index to poems

  1. The Castaway
  2. Light Shining out of Darkness
  3. On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
  4. On the Loss of the Royal George
  5. The Retired Cat
  6. The Shrubbery
  7. Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
  8. The Task: from Book I: The Sofa
  9. The Task: from Book II: The Time-Piece
  10. The Task: from Book IV: The Winter Evening
  11. The Task: from Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
  12. The Task: from Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
  13. To Mary
Biography: 
  • Baird, John D.. “Cowper, William (1731-1800).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Given Name: 
William
Family Name: 
Cowper
Birth Date: 
November 15, 1731
Death Date: 
April 25, 1800
Nationality: 
English
Family Relations: 
father : John Cowper
mother : Anne Cowper
brother : John Cowper

Education

Spoken Languages: 
English
Greek
Latin

Religion

Literary Period: 
Age of Johnson
Literary Movement: 
Unknown

Illness

Buried At: 
St. Edmund's Chapel, East Dereham Church
First RPO Edition: 
1997