TY - BOOK AU - Cowper,William TI - The Diverting History of John Gilpin AV - PR PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - English poetry N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilpin; Release date is 2007-12-06; Produced by Huub Bakker, Jason Isbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Diverting History of John Gilpin" by William Cowper is a comic ballad written in 1782. Based on a story Cowper heard from Lady Austen, the poem follows John Gilpin, a wealthy London draper, and his family on a disastrous journey to Edmonton. When Gilpin loses control of his horse, he's carried helplessly on a wild ride far beyond his destination, becoming separated from his wife and children in this humorous tale of mishap and misadventure. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23753 ER -