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:''This was also the name of his great uncle William Hayley (priest) a 17th-century Dean of Chichester and a contemporary architect b.1797 at Thornhill, West Yorkshire.'' William Hayley (9 November 1745 – 12 November 1820) was an English writer, best known as the friend and biographer of William Cowper. ==Biography== Born at Chichester, he was sent to Eton in 1757, and to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1762; his connection with the Middle Temple, London, where he was admitted in 1766, was merely nominal. In 1767 he left Cambridge and went to live in London. His private means enabled Hayley to live on his patrimonial estate at Eartham, Sussex, and he retired there in 1774.〔 So great was Hayley's fame that on Thomas Warton's death in 1790 he was offered the laureateship, which he refused. In 1792, while writing the ''Life'' of Milton, Hayley made Cowper's acquaintance. A warm friendship sprang up between the two which lasted till Cowper's death in 1800. Hayley indeed was mainly instrumental in getting Cowper his pension. In 1800 Hayley also lost his natural son, Thomas Alphonso Hayley, to whom he was devotedly attached. He had been a pupil of John Flaxman's, to whom Hayley's ''Essay on Sculpture'' (1800) is addressed. Flaxman introduced William Blake to Hayley, and after the latter had moved in 1800 to his marine hermitage at Felpham, Sussex. Blake settled near him for three years to engrave the illustrations for the ''Life of Cowper''. This, Hayley's best known work, was published in 1803-1804 (Chichester) in 5 vols.〔 Hayley died at Felpham on 12 November 1820.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Hayley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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