William Cowper Quotes
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides.
Cowper, William. The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. J. Johnson, 1785, p. 224.
Ernestine Louise Polowsky. Most abolitionists were not as concerned with female emancipation. Rose was one of the exceptions.
Hopkins was complaining about the fact that England could tax the colonies and thereby take their property without their consent made the American colonists in the “miserable condition of slaves.” Essentially the fundamental complaint of the Americans was this and in a decade it would erupt as the American Revolution. At the same time, Hopkins was a slave owner and yet saw nothing wrong with that.
William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him "the best modern poet", whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem Yardley-Oak.
