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On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture
"On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture", also known as "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture Out of Norfolk", is a 1798 poem by English poet William Cowper, which he wrote because of a love for his mother.
==History==
Cowper's mother, Ann, died when she was 36 years old in 1737, when Cowper was six years old. Her husband, John, built a monument after she died, with an inscription that begins, "Here lies, in early years bereft of life, the best of mothers and the kindest wife".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Cowper )〕
Cowper, then 58 years old, received a picture of his mother in 1790, given to him by his cousin Ann Bodham. In response to her giving him the gift, he said, "Every creature who bears any affinity to my mother, is dear to me. I love you, therefore, and love you so much, both for her sake and your own". He wrote in a letter that he would rather have possession of the picture "than the richest jewel in the British crown". The poem was written because of how important his mother was to him, and as a result of receiving the picture. Completed shortly before his last insanity attack, the poem was first published by itself in 1798, later being published with other poems in 1799.
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