1779-1800
Olney Hymns, in Three Books (1779 W Oliver, J Buckland, J Johnson, London)
- with John Newton. Anon
Offered in 1999 for £575
Poems (1782-5 J Johnson, London)
- 2 vols. - contains Table Talk
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (first printed on 14th Nov 1782, in "The Public Advertiser")
Poems Vol II (1785)
- contains John Gilpin
The Task : A Poem in Six Books (1785)
(1787 Thos Dobson, Phila)
Poems (1786, 1800)
- 2 vols
Poems (1787 for J Johnson, London. 3rd Ed)
- 2 vols
The Castaway
The Iliad & Odyssey of Homer (1791)
- trans
Poems (1794 Johnson. 6th Ed)
(1800 ptd for J Johnson, London)
- 2 vols
1801-1850
Poems (trans from the French of Madame Guion)
(1801)
Cowper Illustrated by a Series of Views in or near the Park of Weston Underwood, Bucks (1803 London)
Poems in Two Volumes (1808 J Johnson)
- 2 vols
Life an Letters by William Hayley (1803-6)
- 4 vols
Memoir (1816)
- retitled in 1835 "Autobiography"
Private Correspondence now first Published from the Originals (1824 Colburn)
- 2 vols
The Poems : with Life of the Author (1825 N Hailes, London)
Poems, the Early Productions (1825 Baldwin, Cradock & Joy)
Table Talk & other Poems (1825 for John Sharpe, London)
The Poetical Works (1830-1 Wm Pickering, Aldine Poets)
- 3 vols
Life and Works by Robert Southey (1835-7 Baldwin & Cradock, London)
- 15 vols
Poems : with a Biographical & Critical Introduction by Rev Thomas Dale
(1841 Tilt)
- 2 vols. After John Gilbert
The Poems of William Cowper (1844 Richard Griffin, Glasgow & Thomas Tegg, London. 4th Ed)
The Poetical Works (1847 Reid)
- Memoir by Charles Whitehead
1855-1900
The Task (1855 Nisbet)
- Birket Foster
The History of John Gilpin (c1860 McLoughlin, NY)
The Poetical Works (1862 Routledge)
- Edited by Rev R Aris Willmott
John Gilpin (1868 Warne - Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books)
The Works : Life, Letters & Poems (1876 Porter & Coates, Phila)
After 1901
The Correspondence (ed. Thomas Wright)
(1904)
- 4 vols
Poetical Works (ed Humphrey Milford)
(1905 Oxford)
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1906 Constable)
- Robert Seaver
Unpublished and Uncollected Letters (ed Wright)
(1925)
Selected Letters (1926)
John Gilpin (1952 Chiswick Press for Sir Allen Lane)
- 1600. Ronald Searle
The Letters and Prose Writings (1979 Clarendon Press)
- 5 vols
The Poems of Thomas Cowper : Vol 1 1748-1782 (1980 Clarendon Press)
READING
Samuel Greatheed : Memoirs of the Life & Writings of W Cowper Esq (1803 T Williams, London)
William Hayley : The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper
(1803-4 Seagrave for Johnson, Chichester)
- 3 vols
Thomas Taylor : The Life of William Cowper (1833 Smith Elder 2nd Ed)
R B Seeley : The Life of William Cowper, with Selections from His Correspondence
(1855 Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, London)
- Anon
John Neve : A Concordance to the Poetical Works (1887)
David Cecil : The Stricken Deer, or The Life of Cowper (1929 Constable)
Thomas Gilbert : Cowper and the 18thC (1935)
Norman Nicholson : William Cowper (1951 John Lehmann)
Charles Ryskamp : Cowper of the Inner Temple Esq (1959 Cambridge)
Lodwick Hartley : Cowper - the Continuing Revaluation (1961 Chapel Hill, NC)
Norma Russell : A Bibliography of William Cowper to 1837 (1963 OUP)