Masten F. S. Davenport. with the best wishes Er his befsiness and Success, from bis friend. J. DV, Ab.11.1852. Boston School Edition. THE TASK, A POEM。 BY WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY LEWIS AND SAMPSON, 1842. ADVERTISEMENT. THE history of the following production, is briefly this: A lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of that kind from the author, and gave him the Sora for a subject. He obeyed; and, having much leisure, connected another subject with it; and pursuing the train of thought to which his situation and turn of mind led him, brought forth, at length, instead of the trifle which he at first intended, a serious affair-a Volume. |