Boston School Edition. THE TASK. POEM. BY WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ FOR THE USE OF BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY PHILLIPS & SAMPSON, 122 Washington Street. ADVERTISEMENT. THE history of the following production, is briefly this: A lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of that kind from the author, and gave him the SOFA for a subject. He obeyed; and, having much leisure, connected another subject with it; and pursuing the train of thought to which his situation and turn of mind led him, brought forth, at length, instead of the trifle which he at first intended, a serious affair-—a Volume |