English poet, author of Olney Hymns (1779), John Gilpin (1782), and The Task (1785); Cowper's delicate mental health attracted as much sympathy from romantic readers as his letters, edited by William Hayley, did admiration.

REFERENCES TO William Cowper:

Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22 December 1793 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [30 May 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [8 June 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [13 June 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 6 July 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 5 December 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [9 December 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 20 December 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2 January 1797 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 16 January 1797 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [5 February 1797] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 12 November 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 23 October 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 5 March 1803 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 March 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 13 April 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 2 June 1806 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Joseph Cooper Walker to Sydney Owenson, 18 February 1807 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 21 April 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 8 May 1808 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 6 January 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Lord Byron to Henry Drury, 25 June 1809 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

James Hodgson to Francis Hodgson, 16 May 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 26 March 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 June 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 20 May 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, [13?] March 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 18 February 1826 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 28 September [1835] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 29 September 1835 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to John May, 30 January 1836 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Charles Swain, 27 October 1836 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 10 November 1836 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 2 December 1837 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)