The Diverting History of John Gilpin

The Diverting History of John Gilpin

Title: The Diverting History of John Gilpin
Author: William Cowper
Release: 1878-01-01
Kind: ebook
Genre: Poetry, Books, Fiction & Literature
Size: 820416
The story of Diverting History of John Gilpin is a comic ballad by William Cowper about John Gilpin, written in 1782. The ballad 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 together with Gilpin toys.

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