The Works of William Cowper / His life, letters, and poems, now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

by William Cowper

[640] Rev. John Buchanan.

[641] The prospect of a marriage between Miss Stapleton, the Catharina of Cowper, and Mr. Courtenay, Sir John Throckmorton's brother.

[642] Vicar of Dalington, near Northampton.

[643] See page 377.

[644] Young's testimony in favour of blank verse is thus forcibly, though rather pompously expressed:—

"Blank verse is verse unfallen, uncursed; verse reclaimed, re-enthroned in the true language of the gods."

See Conjectures on Original Composition.

[645] For two other versions of this passage, see Letters, dated Dec. 17, 1793, and Jan 5, 1794.

[646] See Dr. Johnson's sketch of the Life of Cowper.

[647] This Elegy is inserted in Mr. Park's volume of sonnets and miscellaneous poems.