Poems 1786

By Helen Maria Williams

Book Overview

Helen Maria Williams (1761 or 1762 1827) was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. She was an abolitionist, religious dissenter and supported of the French Revolution. Her 1786 Poems touch on topics ranging from religion to a critique of Spanish colonial practices. She allied herself with the cult of feminine sensibility, deploying it politically in opposition to war ("Ode on the Peace", a 1786 poem about Peru) and slavery (the abolitionist "Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade", 1788).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438527098
• ISBN13: 9781438527093
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"