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<strong>WILLIAM</strong> <strong>COWPER</strong><br />
<strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong>, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Poems</strong>, <strong>ed</strong>. <strong>John</strong> D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (3 vols,<br />
Oxford, 1980-95).<br />
<strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong>, <strong>The</strong> Task, in <strong>The</strong> Works, <strong>ed</strong> <strong>William</strong> Wensdorf and Charles<br />
Ryskamp (Oxford, 1979); or in '<strong>The</strong> Task' and Select<strong>ed</strong> Other <strong>Poems</strong>, <strong>ed</strong>.<br />
James Sambrook (London, 1994) [modest intro. and annotat<strong>ed</strong> full text<br />
of <strong>The</strong> Task, plus useful select bibliography].<br />
<strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong>, <strong>The</strong> Letters and Prose Writings of <strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong>, <strong>ed</strong>. James<br />
King and Charles Ryskamp (5 vols, Oxford, 1979-86); see esp. 'Adelphi;<br />
an Account of the Conversion of W.C. Esquire, Faithfully Transcrib<strong>ed</strong><br />
from his Own Narrative', Vol. I (Oxford, 1979).<br />
<strong>Poems</strong> by <strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong> of the Inner Temple, Esq. [1782] (Scolar Press<br />
facsimile <strong>ed</strong>., Ilkley, 1973).<br />
Brown (Marshall) Preromanticism (Stanford, Cal., 1991), Chap. 4.<br />
Davie (Donald), '<strong>The</strong> Critical Principles of <strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong>', <strong>The</strong> Cambridge<br />
Journal, VII (1953), 182-8.<br />
Davie (Donald), A Gather<strong>ed</strong> Church; <strong>The</strong> Literature of the English Dissenting<br />
Interest, 1700-1930 (London, 1978).<br />
Dawson (P.M.S.), '<strong>Cowper</strong>'s Equivocations', Essays in Criticism, 33 (1983), 19-<br />
35.<br />
Empson (<strong>William</strong>), 'Reading a Poem: <strong>Cowper</strong>'s '<strong>The</strong> Castaway' [1955], in his<br />
Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture, <strong>ed</strong>. J. Haffenden (London,<br />
1988).<br />
England (M.W.) and Sparrow (<strong>John</strong>), Hymns Unbidden; Donne, Herbert, Blake,<br />
Emily Dickinson and the Hymnographers (N.Y., 1966).<br />
Feingold (Richard), Nature and Society; Later Eighteenth Century Uses of the<br />
Pastoral and Georgic (Hassocks, 1978).<br />
Feingold (Richard), Moraliz<strong>ed</strong> Song; <strong>The</strong> Character of Augustan Lyricism (New<br />
Brunswick and London, 1989).<br />
Fulford (Tim), Landscape, Liberty, and Authority; Poetry, Criticism, and Politics<br />
from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge, 1996).<br />
Griffin (D.), '<strong>Cowper</strong>, Milton, and the Recovery of Paradise', Essays in<br />
Criticism, XXXI (1981), 15-26.<br />
Griffin (D.), 'R<strong>ed</strong>efining Georgic: <strong>Cowper</strong>'s Task', ELH, 57 (1990), 865-79.<br />
Havens (R.D.), <strong>The</strong> Influence of Milton on English Poetry (Cambridge, Mass.,<br />
1922).<br />
Hazlitt (<strong>William</strong>), 'On Thompson and <strong>Cowper</strong>', in Lectures on the English Poets<br />
(1818); Complete Works, <strong>ed</strong>. P.P. Howe (21 vols, London, 1930-4), Vol. V,
pp. 85-104.<br />
Hutchings (Bill), <strong>The</strong> Poetry of <strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong> (London, c. 1983).<br />
King (James), <strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong>: A Biography (Durham, N.C., 1986).<br />
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Knox (Alexander), '<strong>Cowper</strong>' (1796), in Scott Ell<strong>ed</strong>ge (<strong>ed</strong>.), Eighteenth Century<br />
Critical Essays (2 vols, Ithaca, N.Y., 1961).<br />
Low (Anthony), <strong>The</strong> Georgic Revolution (Princeton, 1985).<br />
MacLean (Kenneth), '<strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong>', in F.W. Hilles (<strong>ed</strong>.), <strong>The</strong> Age of <strong>John</strong>son;<br />
Essays Present<strong>ed</strong> to Chauncey Brewster Tinker (New Haven, 1949).<br />
Newey (Vincent), <strong>Cowper</strong>'s Poetry; A Critical Study and Reassessment (Liverpool,<br />
1982).<br />
O'Brien (Karen), '"Still at Home": <strong>Cowper</strong>'s Domestic Empires', in Thomas<br />
Woodman (<strong>ed</strong>.), Early Romantics; Perspectives in British Poetry from Pope<br />
to Wordsworth (Basingstoke, 1998), pp. 134-47.<br />
Priestman (Martin), <strong>Cowper</strong>'s 'Task'; Structure and Influence (Cambridge,<br />
1983).<br />
Rawson (Claude), '<strong>William</strong> <strong>Cowper</strong> and Christopher Smart', in his Order from<br />
Confusion Sprung; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to<br />
<strong>Cowper</strong> (London, 1985), 366-80.<br />
Ryskamp (Charles), 'Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads in <strong>The</strong>ir Time', in F.W.<br />
Hilles and H. Bloom (<strong>ed</strong>s), From Sensibility to Romanticism; Essays<br />
Present<strong>ed</strong> to Fr<strong>ed</strong>erick A. Pottle (New York, 1965).<br />
Spacks (P.M.), <strong>The</strong> Poetry of Vision; Five Eighteenth-Century Poets (Cambridge,<br />
Mass., 1967) [Thomson, Collins, Gray, Smart, <strong>Cowper</strong>].<br />
J.H. Prynne, June 2003