Cowper, William

Cowper, William. The Task A Poem in Six Books. Printed for J. Johnson, London. 1785. 

A similar criticism of science can be found in the works of the early eighteenth-century British moralists Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and William Cowper. 

A pair of pea-sized glands that lie beneath the prostate gland. Cowper s glands secrete an alkaline fluid that forms part of the semen. This fluid neutralizes the acidic environment of the urethra, thereby protecting the sperm. The glands are named after William Cowper (1666-1709). See also seminal vesicle. 

Davies, Michael, Shaping Grace The Spiritual Autobiographies of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and John Newton , BS, 12 (2007), 36-69. 

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