Excerpt from The Life of William Cowper Cowper. The Life and Letters by Southey - a truly excellent work - was issued in October of the same year In 1863 appeared the Aldine edition with a good life by the painstaking John Bruce, who died six years later. The various writings (1864 1869) of the Rev. Josiah Bull also threw fresh light on the poet's story, and W. (now Canon) Benham was able to give a few' fresh facts in the Globe edition The author's Town of Cowper appeared in 1886. An article entitled Some Unpueh'slzed mss. Of the Poet Cowper, by Mrs. D'arcy Collyer, in the Universal Review for June, 1890, contains, along with some useful notes, a poem never before published (see Chapter entitled A Song of Mercy and Judgment, one of the most striking things Cowper ever wrote. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.