BIB_ID
365010
Accession number
MA 86.29
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1791 Mar. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot."
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
With seal.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
With seal.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Referring to [Samuel] Johnson's "perverse judgment ... of [British] poets in general," and arguing that he depreciat[es] some of the best [poets]" and "mak[es] honorable mention of others ... not undeservedly neglected"; saying that he thinks Johnson would not have liked [John] Milton's Paradise Lost if he had been Milton's contemporary; noting that Bagot always comes up with quotations that are applicable "to the present condition of France."
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