Negro's Complaint and Other Poems

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 1, 2025

In Category - Lyric

Authors: William Cowper In Year : 1828

Book Language: English

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The Negro's Complaint
Pity for Poor Africans
Lines Addressed to Dr. Darwin
Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez
On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Lord High Chancellorship of England
Boadicea, an Ode
On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, together with his MSS., by the Mob, in the Month of June 1780
Horace. Bk II Ode X
The Doves
A Fable
Ode to Apollo
On a Goldfinch, Starved to Death in his Cage
The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time
Light Shining out of Darkness
The Poet, the Oyster and the Sensitive Plant
The Nightingale and Glow-worm
Mutual Forbearance
Epitaph on a Hare
To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut
Translations (1.The Glow-Worm; 2.The Jackdaw; 3.The Cricket; 4.The Parrot)

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.