23/37 Cowper contributed to the _Connoiseur_ and the _St. His papers in the _Connoisseur_ have been preserved; they are mainly imitations of the lighter papers of the _Spectator_ by a student who affects the man of the world. He also dallied with poetry, writing verses to "Delia," and an epistle to Lloyd. He had translated an elegy of Tibullus when he was fourteen, and at Westminster he had written an imitation of Phillips's _Splendid Shilling_, which, Southey says, shows his manner formed. |