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Part 1: Cowper's early life and writings; madness, salvation and MaryUnwin; John Newton and "Olney Hymns"; madness and reprobation; recovery -occasional poems and letters; moral satires; Lady Austen and light verse;"The Task" - a poem of composite order; "The Task" - idyllium and georgio;"The Task" - philosophical satire; "The Task" - baptized philosophy; LadyHesketh and the Homer translation; last years; Cowper's place. Part 2 Earlypoems: On Finding the Heel of a Shoe; "Delia, Th'unkindest Girl on Earth";song - "No More Shall Hapless Celia's Ears"; Epistle to Robert Lloyd;"Doom'd, As I Am, In Solitude to Waste"; "Hatred and Vengeance, My EternalPortion". Part 3 Olney Hymns: Walking with God; Lovest Thou Me?; Praise forthe Fountain Opened; Jehovah our Righteousness; I will Praise the Lord at allTimes; Light Shining Out of Darkness. Part 4 Poems (1782): The Progress ofError (lines 369-416); Truth (lines 131-64); Expostulation (lines 272-389);Hope (lines 663-771); Conversation (505-604); Retirement (365-480); Versessupposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk; Boadicea - an ode. Part 5 Laterpoems: The Diverting History of John Gilpin; The Colubriad; On the Loss ofthe Royal George; Epitaph on a Hare; Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce; On The Deathof Mrs Throckmorton's Bulfinch; On the Recepit of my Mother's Picture out ofNorfolk; Yardley Oak; To Mary; The Cast-away. Part 6 Translation of Homer:"Iliad" I, 1-8; "Iliad" XII, 336-97; "Odyssey" VII, 134-62.