1st Edition
Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 3
By John Goodridge, Simon Kövesi, David Fairer, Tim Burke, William Christmas, Bridget Keegan
Copyright 2003
454 Pages
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Routledge
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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 III -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- JOHN FREETH (1731-1808) -- From The Political Songster (1790) -- On the Petitions for the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- From A Touch on the limes (1803) -- The Year Ninety-Five ANONYMOUS (‘AN UNLETTERED BARD’) (ft 1781) -- From Poems on Various Subjects, Chiefly Pastoral (1781) -- VersesWrittenUnderaHill8 -- EDWARD RUSIITON (1756—1814) -- [Rebellion tottering stands] -- From The Dismemberd Empire (1782) [Preface] -- Neglected Genius: Or, Tnbutarj Stanzas to the Memory of the UnJàrmnate Chanerton (1787) -- From West-Indian Eclogues (1787) -- Advertisement -- Dedication -- Eclogue the First -- Eclogue the Fourth -- From Poems (1806) -- To a Redbreast in November, Written near one of the Docks of liverpool -- On the Approach of the Gout -- Mary Ic More -- To the Memory of Robert Burns -- The Swallow -- A Caution to my Friend J. M. -- From Poems and Other Writings (1824) -- Song in Commemoration of the French Revolution, 1791 -- DAVID LOVE (1750—1827) -- ‘W W’ (‘A WEAVER’) (fL 1770—2) -- A Summer’s Day -- WILLIAM JOB (ft 1785) -- From Poems, on Various Subjects (1785) -- Preface -- Eulogy, &c. On Isaac Elton, Esq. -- [Lines, Occasioned by Seeing a Paragraph in one of the Bristol Journals, Relating to a Trial] -- To Mr. T r, on Receiving a Gift of Two Volumes, Call’d ‘The Art of English Poetry’ -- WILLIPuM NEWtON (ft. I 785—90) -- Ftw,, Verses, Written by Miss Anna Seward, in the Blank Leaves of her own Poems, Presented by her to William Newton -- Sonnet to Miss Seward -- Sonnet: ‘When will my weary aching head have rest?’ -- ANN YEARSLEY (1753—1806) -- From Poems, on Several Occasions (1785) -- A Prefatory Letter to Mrs. Montagu. By a Friend -- Night. To StelIa -- To the Same; on her Accusing the Author of Flattery, and of Ascribing to the Creature that Praise which is Due Only to the Creator -- Soliloquy -- To the Honourable H--e W--e, on Reading The Castle of Otranto. Dec
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John Goodridge, Simon Kövesi, David Fairer, Tim Burke, William Christmas, Bridget Keegan
