[1785] - Cowper publishes The Task

William Cowper (1731–1800), painted by George Romney, 1792

Useful Links and Further Reading

• Project Gutenberg, ‘The Task and Other Poems’,
  http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3698/pg3698.html
• University of Toronto, ‘Selected Poetry of William Cowper (1731–1800)’,
  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/79.html
• William Cowper, ‘The Complete Poetical Works’,
  http://www.ccel.org/c/cowper/works/home.html
• 1911 Classic Encyclopedia, ‘William Cowper’,
  http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/William_Cowper
• Quotidiana, ‘William Cowper (1731–1800)’,
  http://essays.quotidiana.org/cowper/
• Conrad Brunström, William Cowper: Religion, Satire, Society (Cranbury, NJ, 2004),
  http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5dOlaiFTC60C&printsec=frontcover&dq=william+cowper&hl=en&ei=XKfbTr-MGI3V8QPdrL3UDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Vincent Newey, Cowper’s Poetry: A Critical Study and Reassessment (Liverpool, 1982)
• Martin Priestman, Cowper’s Task: Structure and Influence (Cambridge, 1983)
• George Melvyn Ella, William Cowper: The Man of God’s Stamp, Bicentenary Essays (London, 2000)