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Born in November 26, 1731 / Died in April 25, 1800 / United Kingdom / English

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  • Lodwick Hartley, William Cowper: The Continuing Revaluation. An Essay and a Bibliography of Cowperian Studies from 1895 to 1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960).
  • Norma Russell, A Bibliography of William Cowper to 1837 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society and Oxford University Press, 1963).
  • Samuel Greatheed, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Cowper (London: Printed for T. Williams, 1803; revised edition, London: Printed for Whittingham and Arliss, 1814).
  • Thomas Taylor, The Life of William Cowper (London: Smith, Elder, 1833; enlarged edition, London: Seeley & Burnside, 1833).
  • Thomas Wright, The Life of William Cowper (London: Unwin, 1892; revised and enlarged edition, London: Farncombe, 1921).
  • Hugh I'Anson Fausset, William Cowper (London: Cape, 1928).
  • Lord David Cecil, The Stricken Deer; or, The Life of Cowper (London: Constable, 1929; Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930).
  • Gilbert Thomas, William Cowper and the Eighteenth Century (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1935; revised edition, London: Allen & Unwin, 1948).
  • Maurice J. Quinlan, William Cowper: A Critical Life (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1953).
  • Charles Ryskamp, William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq. A Study of His Life and Works to the Year 1768 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959).
  • James King, William Cowper: A Biography (Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1986).
  • Walter Bagehot, "William Cowper," National Review, 1 (July 1855): 31-72; reprinted in Literary Studies by the Late Walter Bagehot, edited by R. H. Hutton (London: Longmans, Green, 1898), I: 87-143.
  • T. E. Blom, "Eighteenth-Century Reflexive Process Poetry," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10 (Fall 1976): 52-72.
  • David Boyd, "Satire and Pastoral in The Task," Papers on Language and Literature, 10 (Fall 1974): 363-377.
  • Wallace C. Brown, The Triumph of Form: A Study of the Later Masters of the Heroic Couplet (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1948), pp. 132-141.
  • Dorothy H. Craven, "Cowper's Use of 'Slight Connection' in 'The Task': A Study in Structure and Style," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, 1953.
  • Donald Davie, "The Critical Principles of William Cowper," Cambridge Journal, 7 (December 1953); 182-188.
  • Davie, Purity of Diction in English Verse (London: Chatto & Windus, 1952), pp. 52-61.
  • D. J. Enright, "William Cowper," The Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Dryden to Johnson, edited by Boris Ford (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1957), IV: 387-398.
  • Richard Feingold, Nature and Society: Later Eighteenth-Century Uses of the Pastoral and Georgic (Hassocks, U.K.: Harvester Press, 1978; New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1978), pp. 121-192.
  • William Norris Free, William Cowper (New York: Twayne, 1970).
  • Northrop Frye, "Towards Defining an Age of Sensibility," Journal of English Literary History, 23 (June 1956): 144-152.
  • Morris Golden, In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William Cowper (New York: Bookman Associates, 1960).
  • Hoosag K. Gregory, "The Prisoner and His Crimes: A Psychological Approach to William Cowper's Life and Writings," Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1951.
  • Dustin Griffin, "Cowper, Milton and the Recovery of Paradise," Essays in Criticism, 31 (January 1981): 15-26.
  • Lodwick Hartley, "'The Stricken Deer' and His Contemporary Reputation," Studies in Philology, 36 (October 1939): 637-650.
  • Hartley, William Cowper, Humanitarian (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938).
  • William Hazlitt, "On Thomson and Cowper," in his Lectures on the English Poets (London: Dent, 1964; New York: Dutton, 1964), pp. 85-104.
  • Roderick Huang, William Cowper: Nature Poet (London: Oxford University Press, 1957).
  • Bill Hutchings, The Poetry of William Cowper (London & Canberra, Australia: Croom Helm, 1983).
  • Hutchings, "William Cowper and 1789," in The Yearbook of English Studies, volume 19: The French Revolution in English Literature and Art, edited by J. R. Watson (London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1989), pp. 71-93.
  • Alexander Knox, "Cowper," Flapper, 30 (14 May 1796): 116-119; 34 (28 May 1796): 133-136; 38 (11 June 1796); 149-152; reprinted in Eighteenth Century Critical Essays, edited by S. Elledge (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1961), II: 1104-1121.
  • Kenneth MacLean, "William Cowper," in The Age of Johnson: Essays Presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker, edited by Frederick W. Hilles (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1949), pp. 257-267.
  • Madeleine Forell Marshall and Janet Todd, English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982), pp. 119-146.
  • Ann Matheson, "The Influence of Cowper's The Task on Coleridge's Conversation Poems," in New Approaches to Coleridge, edited by Donald Sultana (London: Vision, 1981; Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1981), pp. 137-150.
  • Joseph F. Musser, "William Cowper's Rhetoric: The Picturesque and the Personal," Studies in English Literature, 19 (Summer 1979): 515-531.
  • John Neve, A Concordance to the Poetical Works of William Cowper (London: Sampson Low, 1887).
  • Vincent Newey, Cowper's Poetry: A Critical Study and Reassessment (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1982; Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1982).
  • Newey, "William Cowper and the Condition of England," in Literature and Nationalism, edited by Newey and Ann Thompson (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1991; Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1991), pp. 120-139.
  • Norman Nicholson, William Cowper (London: Lehmann, 1951).
  • Martin Priestman, Cowper's "Task": Structure and Influence (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
  • Maurice J. Quinlan, "Cowper's Imagery," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 47 (July 1948): 276-285.
  • Bruce Redford, The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1986), pp. 49-92.
  • Patricia Meyer Spacks, The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-Century Poets (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967), pp. 165-206.
  • Spacks, "The Soul's Imaginings: Daniel Defoe, William Cowper," PMLA, 91 (May 1976): 420-435.
  • J. S. Storer and John Greig, Cowper, Illustrated by a Series of Views In or Near the Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks (London: Vernor & Hood, 1803).
  • J. R. Watson, "Cowper's Olney Hymns," Essays and Studies, n.s. 38 (1985): 45-65.