The Diverting History of John GilpinGood Press, 2019 M12 24 - 407 pages This book is a comic ballad by William Cowper. It concerns a draper called John Gilpin who rides a runaway horse. Cowper heard the story from Lady Anna Austen at a time of severe depression, and it cheered him up so much that he put it into verse. It was very popular, to the extent that "pirate copies were being sold all across the country, together with Gilpin books and toys." |
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