| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.' | George Austen | William Cowper | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Complete transcript of Cowper's poem. | Anon | William Cowper | The Negro's complaint | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Transcription of Cowper's poem and ''By W. Cowper'. | B.A.T. Herbert | William Cowper | My Father! When I learned that thou was Dead | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper
| I.G. | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I never framed a wish or formed a plan that flattered mewith hopes of earthly bliss. But thou wert there. [rewriting o... | member of Carey/Maingay group | William Cowper | The Task, Book IV | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['O... | Charles Lamb | William Cowper | On the Loss of the Royal George | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Cowper | Friendship | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | William Cowper | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How... | Anne Lister | William Cowper | Retirement | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | William Cowper | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines... | Frances Ridley Havergal | William Cowper | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes political and critical remarks added by Anna Seward to copy of William Cowper, The Task. | Anna Seward | William Cowper | The Task | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | William Cowper | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided ... | Mary Wollstonecraft | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ... | Thomas Carter | William Cowper | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I could not do without a Syringa, for the sake of Cowper's Line.' | Jane Austen | William Cowper | The Task | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Change will befall, and friend may part But distance only cannot change the heart' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Cowper | An Epistle to Joseph Hill Esq. | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ode to Peace' 'Come; Peace of Mind, delightful quest/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Cowper | Ode to Peace | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it,... | Jane Austen | William Cowper | Verses supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Cowper | The task | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' What else? Yes, I have read Cowper:
"The stable yields a stercoraceous heap...."
It bears an unpleasant resemblan... | Vita Sackville-West | William Cowper | The Task, Part III (The Garden) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Stephen | William Cowper | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Cowper | 'Poplar Field' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Cowper | 'stanzas to Mary Unwin' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: '1/2 past 4. I have been reading Cowpers Homer & much s... | Robert Southey | William Cowper | The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into English Blank Verse | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'You will be surprized perhaps at hearing that Cowp... | Robert Southey | William Cowper | poem [unidentified] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Shew... | | William Cowper | John Gilpin | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (September 1804):
'My sister and I finished ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804:
'We have finished Cowper a... | Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbour... | Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Celia Burrow | William Cowper | [letters] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Taylor to Elizabeth Gaskell, on the Bronte brother and sisters' religious reading and its relation to their depr... | Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne) | William Cowper | The Task | Print: Book |