1st Edition

Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 1

446 Pages
by Routledge

1288 Pages
by Routledge

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.

Contents of Volume I -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor’s introduction -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- EDWARD WARD (1667—1731) -- From A Journej to He/k or, a Visit paid to the Devil. A Poem (1700) -- The Preface -- Part I. Canto I [The Poet Visits Hades] -- Part I. Canto VI [The Physicians in Hades] -- Part 11. Canto VI [The Poets in Hades] -- Part IL Canto VII [The Printers and the Booksellers in -- Hades] -- From A Collection of Historical and State Poems, Sayrs, Songs, and Epigrams (1717) -- The Character of a certain rattling Whig -- The Tobacco Sot. An Epigram -- Truth without Dissembling: or, A Merry Ballad on the Times -- From The Delights of the Bottle: or, The Comp leaf Vintner (1720) -- Canto II: The Compleat Vintner -- Canto III: The Description of a Tavern -- JANE HOLT (ft 1682?-1717) -- A Fairj Tale Insøib’d, to the Honourable Mn. W___With other Poems (1717) -- [A Fairy Tale] Sent with a pair of China Basons -- To the Ilonourable Mrs. Egcrton on her Marriage, February the 16th, 1717 -- To Colin from a Masquerade -- In the Habit of a Gipsy to the Right Honourable the LadyD— -- To a Lady from the Country in 1709 -- On a Bird -- To the Honourable Mrs. Skipwith from the Isle of Ely -- A Letter to a Lady -- To Mr. Wren my Valentine Six Year Old -- HENRY NELSON (fl. 1725-29) -- A Poem, In the Honour of the Antient and Loyal Socitey of the Journy-Men-Taylors, who are to Dine at the King’s-Inns, on Monday the 25th Inst, Juy, 1726 -- Poem on the Procession of Journeymen Taylors, July the 28th, 1729 -- EDWARD CHICKEN (1698-1747) -- The Collier’s Wedding. A Poem [c1729] -- ROBERT DODSLEY (1703-1764) -- Servitude [1729] -- The Preface -- Servitude -- From A Muse in Livery: or, the Footman’s Miscellany (1732) -- [Dedication] -- Effigies Authoris: or, the Mind of the Frontispiece -- Ode -- An Epistle to Stephen Duck -- The Wish -- The Footman. An Epistle to my Friend Mr. Wright -- The Petition -- An Epistle to my Friend J. B. -- Religion. A S

Biography

John Goodridge, Simon Kövesi, David Fairer, Tim Burke, William Christmas, Bridget Keegan