1819-35

Updated: July 16, 2025

After being a Prof. at Harvard, 1819-35, he went in the latter year to Europe, where he spent some years collecting materials for his magnum opus, The History of Spanish Literature . He also wrote Lives of Lafayette and Prescott, the historian. His Letters and Journals were pub. in 1876, and are the most interesting of his writings.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

Mary Hutchinson 1802, visits Scotland 1804 and becomes acquainted with Scott, pub. The Excursion 1814, White Doe and coll. works 1815, Waggoner, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, etc., 1819-35, pensioned 1842, Poet Laureate 1843, d. 1850. Lives by Christopher Wordsworth , Myers , and others. See also criticism by W. Raleign .

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature