Thomas Cooper, British poet (died 1892)

Thomas Cooper (poet)

English poet, novelist, and Chartist (1805–1892)

Thomas Cooper was an English poet and a leading Chartist. His prison rhyme the Purgatory of Suicides (1845) runs to 944 stanzas. He also wrote novels and in later life religious texts. He was self-educated and worked as a shoemaker, then a preacher, a schoolmaster and a…