The Negro's Complaint and Other Poems - Free Audiobook

The Negro's Complaint and Other Poems - Free Audiobook

Author(s): William Cowper,

Language: English
Genre(s): LyricPoetry

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

About

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.

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