A poem that begins in jest with a sofa and wanders into praise of rural quiet, gardens, and the country over the town.
Books that mention The Task (3)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “Where Memory slept. --WILLIAM COWPER, _The Task_.”
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: “Does it not make you think of Cowper? ‘Ye fallen avenues, once more I mourn your fate unmerited.’”
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “It is this that makes passages in The Task like clear windows let into the prosaic fabric of the rest.”