Negro's Complaint and Other Poems

by William Cowper

20 chapters1h 4mEnglish1828

About this book

William Cowper was an English poet and Anglican hymn writer. He was a forerunner of the Romantic movement in English poetry and strongly influenced the writing of nature poems. His work was admired by Coleridge, Wordsworth and Anne Bronte among others. Cowper was a strong supporter of the campaign for the abolition of slavery and wrote his most famous poem "The Negro's Complaint" to try to raise people's awareness of the horrors and injustices of the system.

Chapters (20)

1The Negro's Complaint

236

2Pity for Poor Africans

235

3Lines Addressed to Dr. Darwin

111

4Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez

238

5On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Lord High Chancellorship of England

6Boadicea, an Ode

177

7On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, together with his MSS., by the Mob, in the Month of June 1780

136

8Horace. Bk II Ode X

150

9The Doves

159

10A Fable

169

11Ode to Apollo

120

12On a Goldfinch, Starved to Death in his Cage

13The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time

270

14Light Shining out of Darkness

102

15The Poet, the Oyster and the Sensitive Plant

273

16The Nightingale and Glow-worm

163

17Mutual Forbearance

256

18Epitaph on a Hare

172

19To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut

159

20Translations (1.The Glow-Worm; 2.The Jackdaw; 3.The Cricket; 4.The Parrot)

551

Negro's Complaint and Other Poems

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Chapters (20)

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