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James Parkerson
An early 19th-century English poet from Norwich, he is remembered for moral and occasional verse that captures everyday life, public feeling, and social warning. His surviving poems, now preserved in digital libraries, offer a small but vivid glimpse of a once-obscure literary voice.
6 Audiobooks
Sketches in Verse: respectfully addressed to the Norfolk Yeomenry
by James Parkerson
The Bankrupt; Or, Advice to the Insolvent. A Poem, addressed to a friend, with other pieces
by James Parkerson
Characters from Life; Or, Moral Hints. In Verse
by James Parkerson
Poetical Works Comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces
by James Parkerson
About the author
James Parkerson was an English poet associated with Norwich and Norfolk. A bibliographic record from the University of Toronto’s Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry identifies him as born in 1767 and notes that he was baptized at St. Martin-at-Palace, Norwich, the second son of a baker, miller, and maltster.
His surviving work suggests a writer of moral, social, and occasional verse. Titles preserved by Project Gutenberg include Characters from Life; Or, Moral Hints. In Verse, An Address to a Wealthy Libertine, The Convict’s Farewell, Sketches in Verse, and The Independent Statesmen, and Liberal Landlord. Together, they point to an author interested in conduct, class, public events, and the texture of ordinary experience.
Parkerson does not appear to have a widely available modern biographical profile, but his poems continue to circulate through public-domain archives. That afterlife gives modern readers and listeners a chance to encounter a lesser-known Romantic-era voice whose work sits close to the concerns of everyday people.