THE TASK : A POEM IN SIX BOOKS. BY WILLIAM COWPER, or THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ. " PHILADELPHIA : PUBLISHED BY BENNETT AND WALTON, NO. 31, MARKET-STREET. ........... ADVERTISEMENT. THE history of the following production 19 briefly this.... A lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of that kind from the author, and gave him the Sofa for a subject. He obeyed; and, have ing much leisure, connected another subject with it; and, pursuing the train of thought to which his situation and turn of mind led him, brought forth at length, instead of the trifle which he at first intended, a serious affair....a Volume ! |