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"Fetters"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Evangelical"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Literary Period:
"Reform and Counterrevolution"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Poetry"
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Date: 1815
"You bid me write to amuse the tedious hours, / And save from withering my poetic powers; / Hard is the task, my friend, for verse should flow / From the free mind, not fetter'd down by woe."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)