EDITED BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. LL.D.
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Homer, Southey, Robert, and Cowper, William
WITH NOTES, BY M.A. DWIGHT, AUTHOR OF “GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY.”
NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & CO., 346 & 348 BROADWAY. M.DCCC.LX.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, By M.A. DWIGHT, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE EARL COWPER, THIS TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD, THE INSCRIPTION OF WHICH TO HIMSELF, THE LATE LAMENTED EARL, BENEVOLENT TO ALL, AND ESPECIALLY KIND TO THE AUTHOR, HAD NOT DISDAINED TO ACCEPT IS HUMBLY OFFERED, AS A SMALL BUT GRATEFUL TRIBUTE, TO THE MEMORY OF HIS FATHER, BY HIS LORDSHIP’S AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN AND SERVANT
WILLIAM COWPER.
June 4, 1791.