
Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 3
1780-1800
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2003
Book
Hardback
454 pages
978-1-138-75291-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
2500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-75291-7 (9781138752917)
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John Goodridge | Simon Koevesi | David Fairer
Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 3
E-Book
04/2020
1st Edition
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€211.99
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John Goodridge | Simon Koevesi | David Fairer
Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, vol 3
E-Book
04/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€211.99
Available for download
Persons
John Goodridge, Simon Koevesi, David Fairer, Tim Burke, William Christmas, Bridget Keegan
Content
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 UnJarmnate 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