One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior
, Swift
, and Pope
, the lesser-known men John Scott
, William Broome
, and Nathaniel Cotton
, and...
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William Cowper
Up to this time Cowper, studying the law in a somewhat desultory manner, had been a sociable young man with literary friends, though he was morbidly timid about public appearance. His madness took the form...