To the Rev. Mr. Buchanan. May 11, 1793. Compli- the poem His affecting situation at this period Dissatisfaction of Lord Thurlow with a passage in Cow- per's Homer, and his and Hayley's attempts to im- To William Hayley, Esq. Dec. 17, 1793. With a new version of the passage above mentioned; criticisms before-mentioned passage; remarks on translation, To William Hayley, Esq., from the Rev. William Great- heed. April 8, 1794. He acquaints Mr. H. with the . ib. Journey from Weston to North Tuddenham, in Norfolk Stay at Tuddenham Removal to Mundsley, a village on the coast Letter from Cowper to the Rev. Mr. Buchanan, describing his present situation, and soliciting news of Weston 238 Cowper becomes settled at Dunham Lodge, near Swaffham 239 He is induced by the appearance of Wakefield's edition Cowper's malady renders him insensible to her loss Successful effort of Mr. Johnson to engage him to return Letter from Cowper to Lady Hesketh, referring to his melancholy situation He finishes the revisal of his Homer "The Cast-away," his last original production His removal to Dereham His translations of Latin and Greek epigrams, and of ib. Death of Cowper's friend, Sir William Russel Nervous attacks, and their presumed causes Distinguishing features in his malady His depression did not prevent the free exercise of his mental powers Sketch of the character, and account of the last illness of the late Rev. John Cowper, by his brother Poetical portraits drawn by him His poem on the Yardley Oak Description of the Tree Original poem on the subject, by the late Samuel Whit- Cowper's moderation amidst literary fame Anecdote of Dr. Parr Cowper's sensibility to unjust censure Letter to John Thornton, Esq. on a severe criticism of his first volume of poems in the "Analytical Review" His excellence as an epistolary writer Character of his Latin poems The Wish, an English version by Mr. Ostler Sublime piety and morality of Cowper's works THE LIFE OF COWPER. Part the Third--Continued. IN detailing the incidents that occur in the life of Cowper, we recorded, in the close of the last volume, a malevolent report highly injurious to his integrity and honour. In order to recall the fact to the memory of the reader, we insert the statement itself, in the words of Cowper: "A report is, and has been some time current, in this and the neighbouring counties, that, though I have given myself the air of declaiming against the slave trade, in 'The Task,' I am in reality a friend to it; and last night I received a letter from Joe Rye, to inform me, that I have been much traduced and calumniated on this account." That the author of "The Task," a poem distinguished by its tone of pure and elevated morality, and breathing a spirit of most uncompromising hostility against the slave trade-that such a man, at that time in the very zenith of his fame, should be VOL. V. B |