
Language
en
Duration
~14 hours (863K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Robert Prince, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.
Release date
2005-04-18
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1799–1845
Known for mixing sharp wit with real feeling, this English poet and humorist wrote both playful comic verse and moving poems about poverty and hardship. His work helped shape later social-protest poetry while keeping a lively, memorable voice of its own.
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