Master F. S. Davenport. with the best withes for his happiness and success, from his friend. J. DN, Feb. 11.1852. Boston School Edition. THE TASK, A POEM. BY WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. FOR THE USE OF 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 SOFA 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. |