Hayley, WILLIAM, Cowper's biographer, was born at Chichester, 9th November 1745, but abandoned legal studies for a life of lettered leisure, living in London, at Eartham in Sussex, and lastly at Feltham, where he died 20th November 1820. Among his works are didactic Essays in verse on painting, on history, on epic poetry, The Triumphs of Temper: a Poem, some plays, a Life of Milton, a Life of Romney, and his most memorable monument, The Life of Cowper (1803; see COWPER). Memoirs of and by himself were published in 1823.
Hayley, WILLIAM
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