Born: 26 November 1731, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
Died: 25 April 1800, Dereham, United Kingdom
Parents: Ann Donne Cowper, John Cowper
His Major works:
1. The Sofa: It is written in blank verse. 2. John Gilpin. 3. The Progress of Error. 4. Truth 5. Table Talk
6. Translation of Homer: It is also in blank verse. 7. The Task (1785): This long blank verse poem is in one sense as much the poetic masterpiece of latter eighteenth-century evangelicalism as Paradise Lost is a masterpiece of militant puritanism of the seventeenth century.8. Olney Hymns (1779) 9. Poems (1782)
William Cowper, Augustan Age: 18th Century Literature