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Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Madness and poetry : a note on Collins, Cowper, and Smart / William B. Ober.

The insanity of William Cowper.

Guide to the Cowper Museum, Olney.

Two sufferers' perspectives on melancholia : 1690s to 1790s / Stanley W. Jackson.

A youth idling by a brook, representing restful withdrawal from the world. Engraving by J. Heath, 1810, after R. Westall.

Stanzas on mortality : subjoined to the Northampton bills of mortality, for several years / by W. Cowper.

[William Cowper correspondence].

Quid nunc? Selections from the poems of the late W. Cowper, Esq., contrasted with the works of Knox, Paley, and others / [William Cowper].

The centenary letters / William Cowper ; edited with an introduction by Simon Malpas.

The letters and prose writings of William Cowper / edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp.

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Cowper, William, 1731-1800

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Stanzas on mortality : subjoined to the Northampton bills of mortality, for several years / by W. Cowper.

[William Cowper correspondence].

Quid nunc? Selections from the poems of the late W. Cowper, Esq., contrasted with the works of Knox, Paley, and others / [William Cowper].

The centenary letters / William Cowper ; edited with an introduction by Simon Malpas.

The letters and prose writings of William Cowper / edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp.