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WILLIAM COWPER
William Cowper, The Poems, ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (3 vols,
Oxford, 1980-95).
William Cowper, The Task, in The Works, ed William Wensdorf and Charles
Ryskamp (Oxford, 1979); or in 'The Task' and Selected Other Poems, ed.
James Sambrook (London, 1994) [modest intro. and annotated full text
of The Task, plus useful select bibliography].
William Cowper, The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, ed. James
King and Charles Ryskamp (5 vols, Oxford, 1979-86); see esp. 'Adelphi;
an Account of the Conversion of W.C. Esquire, Faithfully Transcribed
from his Own Narrative', Vol. I (Oxford, 1979).
Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq. [1782] (Scolar Press
facsimile ed., Ilkley, 1973).
Brown (Marshall) Preromanticism (Stanford, Cal., 1991), Chap. 4.
Davie (Donald), 'The Critical Principles of William Cowper', The Cambridge
Journal, VII (1953), 182-8.
Davie (Donald), A Gathered Church; The Literature of the English Dissenting
Interest, 1700-1930 (London, 1978).
Dawson (P.M.S.), 'Cowper's Equivocations', Essays in Criticism, 33 (1983), 19-
35.
Empson (William), 'Reading a Poem: Cowper's 'The Castaway' [1955], in his
Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture, ed. J. Haffenden (London,
1988).
England (M.W.) and Sparrow (John), Hymns Unbidden; Donne, Herbert, Blake,
Emily Dickinson and the Hymnographers (N.Y., 1966).
Feingold (Richard), Nature and Society; Later Eighteenth Century Uses of the
Pastoral and Georgic (Hassocks, 1978).
Feingold (Richard), Moralized Song; The Character of Augustan Lyricism (New
Brunswick and London, 1989).
Fulford (Tim), Landscape, Liberty, and Authority; Poetry, Criticism, and Politics
from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge, 1996).
Griffin (D.), 'Cowper, Milton, and the Recovery of Paradise', Essays in
Criticism, XXXI (1981), 15-26.
Griffin (D.), 'Redefining Georgic: Cowper's Task', ELH, 57 (1990), 865-79.
Havens (R.D.), The Influence of Milton on English Poetry (Cambridge, Mass.,
1922).
Hazlitt (William), 'On Thompson and Cowper', in Lectures on the English Poets
(1818); Complete Works, ed. P.P. Howe (21 vols, London, 1930-4), Vol. V,

pp. 85-104.
Hutchings (Bill), The Poetry of William Cowper (London, c. 1983).
King (James), William Cowper: A Biography (Durham, N.C., 1986).
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Knox (Alexander), 'Cowper' (1796), in Scott Elledge (ed.), Eighteenth Century
Critical Essays (2 vols, Ithaca, N.Y., 1961).
Low (Anthony), The Georgic Revolution (Princeton, 1985).
MacLean (Kenneth), 'William Cowper', in F.W. Hilles (ed.), The Age of Johnson;
Essays Presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker (New Haven, 1949).
Newey (Vincent), Cowper's Poetry; A Critical Study and Reassessment (Liverpool,
1982).
O'Brien (Karen), '"Still at Home": Cowper's Domestic Empires', in Thomas
Woodman (ed.), Early Romantics; Perspectives in British Poetry from Pope
to Wordsworth (Basingstoke, 1998), pp. 134-47.
Priestman (Martin), Cowper's 'Task'; Structure and Influence (Cambridge,
1983).
Rawson (Claude), 'William Cowper and Christopher Smart', in his Order from
Confusion Sprung; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to
Cowper (London, 1985), 366-80.
Ryskamp (Charles), 'Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads in Their Time', in F.W.
Hilles and H. Bloom (eds), From Sensibility to Romanticism; Essays
Presented to Frederick A. Pottle (New York, 1965).
Spacks (P.M.), The Poetry of Vision; Five Eighteenth-Century Poets (Cambridge,
Mass., 1967) [Thomson, Collins, Gray, Smart, Cowper].
J.H. Prynne, June 2003