"The pathos of some minor poems is unsurpassable. Cowper is attractive whenever he shows his genuine self."
— William Cowper

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Leslie Stephen, 'Cowper, William', Dictionary of National Biography, Volume XII. Conder—Craigie, ed. Leslie Stephen (1887), p. 401