To the Rev. Walter Bagot, June 16, 1789. On his marriage; allusion to his poem on the Queen's visit
310
To Samuel Rose, Esq., June 20, 1789. He expresses regret at not receiving a visit from Mr. R.; acknowledges the arrival of the cuckoo-clock; remark on Hawkins' and Boswell's Life of Johnson
310
To Mrs. Throckmorton, July 18, 1789. Poetic turn of Mr. George Throckmorton; news concerning the Hall
310
To Samuel Rose, Esq., July 23, 1789. Importance of improving the early years of life; anticipations of Mr. R.'s visit
311
To Mrs. King, August 1, 1789. Grumbling of his correspondents on his silence; his time engrossed by Homer; he professes himself an admirer of pictures, but no connoisseur
311
To Samuel Rose, Esq., August 8, 1789. Mrs. Piozzi'sTravels; remark on the author of the "Dunciad"
312
To Joseph Hill, Esq., August 12, 1789. Unfavourable weather and spoiled hay; multiplicity of his engagements; Sunday school hymn
312
To the Rev. John Newton, August 16, 1789. Excuse for long silence; progress of Homer
313
Remarks on Cowper's observation that authors are responsible for their writings
313
To Samuel Rose, Esq., Sept. 24, 1789. Coldness of the season
313
To the same, Oct. 4, 1789. Description of the receipt of a hamper, in the manner of Homer
314
To the Rev. Walter Bagot (without date). Excuse for long silence; why winter is like a backbiter; Villoison's Homer; death of Lord Cowper
314
To the Rev. Walter Bagot (without date). Remarks on Villoison's Prolegomena to Homer
314
Note on the reveries of learned men
315
To the Rev. John Newton, Dec. 1, 1789. Apology for not writing; Mrs. Unwin's state of health; reference to political events
315
To Joseph Hill, Esq., Dec. 18, 1789. Political reflections
316
Character of the French Revolution
316
Burke on the features which distinguish the French Revolution from that of England in 1688
316
Political and moral causes of the French Revolution
317
Origin of the Revolution in America
317
The Established Church endangered by resistance to the spirit of the age
318
To Samuel Rose, Esq., Jan. 3, 1790. Excuses for silence; inquiry concerning Mr. R.'s health; laborious task of revisal
318
To Mrs. King, Jan. 4, 1790. His anxiety on account of her long silence; his occupations; Mrs. Unwin's state
319
To the same, Jan. 18, 1790. He contradicts a report that he intends to quit Weston; reference to his Homer
319
Commencement of Cowper's acquaintance with his cousin the Rev. John Johnson
320
To Lady Hesketh, Jan. 22, 1790. Particulars concerning a poem of his cousin Johnson's; anticipations of the Cambridge critics respecting his Homer
320
To Samuel Rose, Esq., Feb. 2, 1790. He impugns the opinion of Bentley that the last Odyssey is spurious
320
To the Rev. John Newton, Feb. 5, 1790. Account of his painful apprehensions in the month of January
321
To Lady Hesketh, Feb. 9, 1790. Service rendered by her to his cousin Johnson; Cowper's lines on a transcript of an Ode of Horace by Mrs. Throckmorton
321
To the same, Feb. 26, 1790. He promises to send her a specimen of his Homer for the perusal of a lady; his delight at being presented by a relative with his mother's picture
322
To Mrs. Bodham, Feb. 27, 1790. He expresses his delight at receiving his mother's picture from her; lines written by him on the occasion; recollections of his mother; invitation to Weston; remembrances of other maternal relatives
323
To John Johnson, Esq., Feb. 28, 1790. He refers to the present of his mother's picture; he mentions his invitation of the family of the Donnes to Weston; inquires concerning Mr. J.'s poem
324
To Lady Hesketh, March 8, 1790. On Mrs. ——opinion of his Homer; his sentiments on the Test Act; passage from his poems on that subject; ill health of Mrs. Unwin
324
To Samuel Rose, Esq., March 11, 1790. On the state of his health: he condemns the practice of dissembling indispositions
325
To Mrs. King, March 12, 1790. On her favourable opinion of his poems; his mother's picture and his poem on the receipt of it
325
To Mrs. Throckmorton, March 21, 1790. He regrets her absence from Weston; Mrs. Carter's opinion of his Homer; his new wig
326
To Lady Hesketh, March 22, 1790. His opinion of the style best adapted to a translation of Homer
326
To John Johnson, Esq., March 23, 1790. Character of the Odyssey; Cowper professes his affection for Mr. J.
