Poems on Severall Occasions / Spencer Cowper, 1669-1727, 1692-1694.

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Poems on Severall Occasions / Spencer Cowper, 1669-1727, 1692-1694.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122354195

Summary: A journal kept by Spencer Cowper containing 41 poems collected between the years of 1692-1694, the majority collected in 1694. Most of the poems are addressed to "Orinda." The majority of the poems are in English with a few in Latin. There is a table of contents at the back of the book with the title of each poem and the page number.

1 bound volume.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6687813

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Cowper, Spencer, 1669-1727.

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Spencer Cowper was born in 1669. He was educated at Westminster and became a lawyer. In 1690, he was made controller of the Bridge House estates. He was acquainted with a Quaker family by the last name of Stout, and he knew their daughter Sarah, who fell in love with him. In the spring of 1699, she was found drowned by a river. On July 16, 1699, Cowper and three other lawyers were tried for Sarah Stout's murder. They were acquitted of the murder. In 1714, he became attorney-general to the Prince...