PART 1: Cowper's early life and writings Madness, salvation and Mary Unwin
John Newton and "Olney Hymns"
madness and reprobation
recovery - occasional poems and letters
moral satires
Lady Austen and light verse
"The Task" - a poem of composite order
"The Task" - idyllium and georgio
"The Task" - philosophical satire
"The Task" - baptized philosophy
Lady Hesketh and the Homer translation
last years
Cowper's place PART 2: Early poems On Finding the Heel of a Shoe
"Delia, Th'unkindest Girl on Earth"
song - "No More Shall Hapless Celia's Ears"
Epistle to Robert Lloyd
"Doom'd, As I Am, In Solitude to Waste"
"Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion" PART 3: Olney Hymns Walking with God
Lovest Thou Me?
Praise for the Fountain Opened
Jehovah our Righteousness
I will Praise the Lord at all Times
Light Shining Out of Darkness PART 4: Poems (1782) The Progress of Error (lines 369-416)
Truth (lines 131-64)
Expostulation (lines 272-389)
Hope (lines 663-771)
Conversation (505-604)
Retirement (365-480)
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk
Boadicea - an ode PART 5: Later poems The Diverting History of John Gilpin
The Colubriad
On the Loss of the Royal George
Epitaph on a Hare
Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce
On The Death of Mrs Throckmorton's Bulfinch
On the Recepit of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk
Yardley Oak
To Mary
The Cast-away PART 6 Translation of Homer "Iliad" I, 1-8
"Iliad" XII, 336-97
"Odyssey" VII, 134-62.