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...
Textual Features
Jane Cave
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...