Anti-Thelypthora, 58-59
Austen, Lady, 61-63, 82-86, 89,
105
Benham, Mr., 2 note
Berkhampstead, the rectory of, 2,
15
Bodham, Mrs. Anne (Cowper's
cousin), 6
Bourne, Vincent, Cowper's appre-
ciation of, 10-11
Bull, Rev. W., 46, 53, 106
Burns, Cowper's affinity to, 2
Byron, 96
Castaway, The, 42, 128-130
Charity, 50, 59, 76
Chesterfield, Lord, 4, 56
Churchill, 13-14, 49
Colman, 13, 59, 80
Colubriad, The, 103
Connoisseur, The, 13-14
Conversation, 50, 54
Cotton, Dr., 20-21
Cowper, Ashley, 12, 14
Cowper, Rev. John (father), 2
Cowper, John (brother), 14-15, 19,
22-23
Cowper, Spencer (grandfather), 12
Cowper, Theodora (cousin), 12,
14-15, 23, 81
Cowper, William, place in Eng-
lish literature, 1-2; analogy
to and familiarity with Rous-
seau, 1, 14, 32, 79; birth and
parentage, 2; appearance and
temperament, 2-3, 124; social,
political, and religious environ-
ment, 3-6; affection for his
mother, 6-8; school-days, 8-11,
57; studies law, 11-12; life in
the Temple, 12-16; description
of his set, 13-14; passion for
his cousin Theodora, 14; first
attacks of insanity, 15-19; at-
tempted suicide, 18-19; con-
finement in an asylum and
recovery, 20-21; goes to Hunt-
ingdon, 24; the religious re-
vival, 25-28; acquaintance with
the Unwins, 28-33; character of
Mrs. Unwin, 29-30; nature of
Cowper's relations with her,
35; migration to Olney, 35;
acquaintance with Rev. John
Newton, 36; his influence over
Cowper, 41-43; the Olney
hymns, 42; Cowper again goes
mad, 43; devotion of Mrs.
Unwin and Newton, 43-44; be-
comes a poet at fifty, 48; The
Progress of Error, and its re-
ception, 49-51; The Moral
Satires, 49-60; Cowper quite
unfitted for a censor, 52-53;
faults in versification, 56; ac-
quaintance with Lady Austen,
61-63; John Gilpin and The
Happy Change, The, 21
Hastings, Warren, 11, 52
Hayley, 84, 123-124, 127
Hesketh, Lady, 15, 17, 23, 28-29,
41, 86-89, 95, 127; letters to,
84-85, 97-99
Hill, Joseph, 22, 41
Hogarth, 4, 5, 13, 55
Homer, Cowper's translations of,
91-94
Horace, Cowper's translations of,
94-95
Task due to her inspiration, 63;|
The Task, 63-81; its tendency,
63-64; Cowper's peasants, 67,
72; Cowper and Thomson com-
pared, 67-68; affection for the un-
comely, 69-70; Pope and Cowper
compared, 70; religious element
in The Task, 74-75; the philo-
sophy of The Task, 77-78; Cow-
per's sentimentalism, 79; his
pension, 81; rupture with Lady
Austen, 82-86; renewed in-
timacy with Lady Hesketh, 86-
89; short poems, 88-91; under-
takes a translation of Homer,
91-94; his qualifications, 92-93;
translates Horace, 94; begins
to edit Milton, 95; Cowper's
letters, 96-121; artless and Impey, 11
genuine, 96; imparts interest
to the most trivial incidents,
103, 107; views on the French
Revolution, 113-116; final ill-
ness, 122; goes to Eartham,
123; befriended by Hayley,
123-124, 127; death of Mrs.
Unwin, 127; and of Cowper,
Hudibras (Butler's), 90
Huntingdon, 24-25, 28, 32
Huntingdon, Lady, 5, 25
Hymns, the Olney, 42
John Gilpin, 19, 62-63, 86, 89
Johnson, Dr., 49, 59
Letters, Cowper's, 96-121
Lines to a Young Lady, 89, 91
Madan, Rev. Martin, 19-20, 28,
Thornton, Bonnell, 13
Thornton, the philanthropist, 41
Religious revival, the, 1, 25-28, Throckmorton, Mr. and Mrs., 52,
Retirement, 50, 52, 53-54
Romney's portrait of Cowper, 2, To Mary, 87, 125-126
Rousseau, 1, 14, 32, 79-80
Royal George, Loss of the, 89
St. James's Chronicle, 13-14
Scott, Rev. T., 46, 61, 85, 87, 113
Scott, Sir Walter, 94
Shrubbery, The, 89, 90
Slave-Trader in the Dumps, The, Unwin, Rev. W., the elder, 28, 34
Unwin, Rev. W., the younger, 29,
122; letters to, 103-107, 117-
121
Valedictory, The, 60
Walpole, Horace, 96
Wesley, J., 1, 6, 25-26, 56, 75
Whitefield, 1, 5, 6, 25-26, 56
Task, The, 19, 50, 52-53, 63-81, Wilkes, John, 13
Winter Evening, The, 64-66
Winter Morning's Walk, 70-72
Wordsworth, 70, 72
Yardley Oak, 88
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