1st Edition
The Poetry of Ernest Jones Myth, Song, and the 'Mighty Mind'
By Simon Rennie
Copyright 2016
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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As the last leader of the Chartist movement, Ernest Charles Jones (1819-69) is a significant historical figure, but he is just as well-known for his political verse. His prison-composed epic The New World lays claim to being the first poetic exploration of Marxist historical materialism, and his caustic short lyric ‘The Song of the Low’ appears in most modern anthologies of Victorian poetry.... Read more
1 Inf luences and Early Poetry (1840–45) 2 Jones and Myth (1846–48) 3 The ‘Mighty Mind’ (1846–48) 4 Lyrical Prison Poetry (1848–50) 5 ‘The New World, a Democratic Poem’ (1851) 6 Pseudonymity, Revision, Songs of the Low and High (1851–60)
Biography
Simon Rennie is Lecturer in Victorian Poetry at the University of Exeter.
