When Hayley Met Cowper: The ‘Private Affections’ of William the Conqueror!
摘要
In The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Hayley claims that certain instances in their relationship led him to believe that, if alive, Cowper would have solicited him to write his biography. In the introduction to the second volume, Hayley also reproduces a poem by Cowper that invokes the Evangelical doctrine of providence to interpret their friendship as divinely ordained: