(1731–1800), English poet, best known for his long poem The Task (1785) and the comic ballad John Gilpin (1782). In 1779 he wrote Olney Hymns with the evangelical minister John Newton (1725–1807).
Definition of Cowper, William in US English:
Cowper, William
proper nounˈko͞opər
(1731–1800), English poet, noted for the poem The Task (1785) and for the comic ballad John Gilpin (1782).