Poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 18th century.
17 Faust Johann Fust (d. ... Nelson Alluding to 'Nelson's column', the 145-foot-high monument in London, commemorating the victory of the British fleet, under Admiral Horatio Nelson, against the French at Trafalgar in 1805.
Revd T. Ellwood (Ulverston: W. Holmes, 1904) Robert Anderson, Selections from the Cumberland Ballads of Robert Anderson, ed. George Crowther (Ulverston: W. Holmes, 1907) Anonymous, Robert Anderson, the Cumberland bard.
To Mr. John Winship at Greenwich, Excuse for not coming to see him 16 Coley 'Near Reading, from whence the Author came' (author's note). Coley Park is a mile southwest of Reading. From Poems on Several Occasions Text Poems on Several ...
BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA Nineteenth-century English labouring-class poets 1. English poetry - 19th century I. Goodridge, John 821.8'08'0920623 ISBN-13: 978-1-85196-763-6 (set) Typeset by P&C CONTENTS OF VOLUME ...
Eighteenth-century English Labouring-class Poets: 1700-1740
... to E. Waring 90 Shaw, To My Mare Gip 217 Smith, The Poet's Plea 196 Smith, The Country Wright 202 Wilson, The Pitman's Pay. Part Second 259 Wilson, The Washing-Day 271 LOCAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL VERSE; NATURAL DESCRIPTION Batchelor, ...
His current work is focused on the British nineteenthcentury workingclass novel. ... 1730–1830 (Delaware, 2001), and editor of Volume 1 of the series EighteenthCentury English LabouringClass Poets (Pickering & Chatto, 2003).
Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), 22. 11. Pennant, British Zoology, [iii]. 12. Ibid., [i]. 13. Ibid., [v]. 14.
... between classical and English verse, sometimes – as in the period's numerous poems on the “art of poetry” – imitating the form and manner, as well as echoing the concerns, of the Greek and Roman critics. Popular poetic and dramatic ...
15, 1996, pp. 27–53. ———. “Chapbooks, Fairytales, and Children's Books in the Writings of John Clare: Part II.” John Clare Society Journal, vol. 16, 1997, pp. 43–70. Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry.