Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets

Volume 1: 1800-1830 Edited by Scott McEathron Robert Bloomfield, from The Farmer's Boy (1800); from Rural Tales (1802); from Wild Flowers (1806); from The Banks of Wye (1811); William Holloway, from The Peasant's Fate (1802); from The Chimney-Sweeper's Complaint (1806); from The Country Pastor (1812); Nathaniel Bloomfield, from An Essay on War and Other Poems (1803); Ann Candler, from Poetical Attempts (1803); Joseph Holland, 'Appendix' to 'The Seasons of Spring' (1806); Charlotte Caroline Richardson (1775-1850), from Poems Written on Different Occasions (1806); from Poems chiefly composed during the pressure of severe illness (1809); from Harvest (1818); from The Soldier's Child (1821); David Service, from The Wild Harp's Murmurs (1811); Mary Bryan, from Sonnets and Metrical Tales (1815); Ebenezer Elliott, from Night (1818); from Love (1823); from Corn Law Rhymes (1834); James Bird (1788-1839), from The White Hats (1819); from Poetical Memoirs (1823); John Clare (1793-1864), from Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820); from The Village Minstrel (1821); from Shepherd's Calendar (1827); from The Rural Muse (1835); William Smith (fl. 1821-29), from A Collection of Original Poems (1821); from The Haddington Cobler Dissected Alive (1829); James Hogg, from The Poetical Works of James Hogg (1822); Robert Millhouse, from Blossoms (1823); from Song of the Patriot (1826); from Sherwood Forest (1827); John Nicholson, from Airedale in Ancient Times (1825); John Shaw, from Woolton Green (1825); Allen Davenport, from The Muse's Wreath (1827); Index Volume 2: 1830-1860 Edited by Kaye Kossick Henry 'Mechanic' Brown, from The Mechanic's Saturday Night (1830); Mary Maria Colling, from Fables and Other Pieces in Verse (1831); Mary Hutton, from Sheffield Manor and Other Poems (1831); John Jones, from Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant: With Some Account of the Writer, Written by Himself (1831); John Wright, from The Retrospect; or, Youthful Scenes. With other Poems and Songs (1833); Charles Crocker, from The Vale of Obscurity (1834); The Poetical Works of Charles Crocker (1860); John Younger, from Thoughts as They Rise (1834); 'River Angling' (1840); Thomas Watson, from A Collection of Poems (1835); Thomas Miller, from A Day in the Woods: A Connected Series of Tales and Poems (1836); John Critchley Prince, 'The Death of the Factory Child' (1841); from Hours With the Muses (1841); Robert Nicoll, from The Poems of Robert Nicoll (1842); Robert Story, from Love and Literature: Being the Reminiscences, Literary Opinions and Fugitive Pieces of a Poet in Humble Life (1842); Samuel Bamford, from Homely Rhymes, Poems, and Reminiscences (1843); Thomas Wilson, from The Pitman's Pay and Other Poems (1843); Robert Peddie, from The Dungeon Harp: Being a Number of Poetical Pieces Written During a Cruel Imprisonment of Three Years in the Dungeons of Beverley: Also a Full Proof of the Perjury Perpetrated Against the Author by Some of the Hired Agents of the Authorities (1844); William Thom, from Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver (1844); George Richardson, from Patriotism: In Three Cantos, and Other Poems (1844); Thomas Cooper, from The Purgatory of Suicides; A Prison-Rhyme (1845); Gerald Massey, from Voices of Freedom, Lyrics of Love (1850); Poems and Ballads by Gerald Massey, Containing the Ballad of Babe Christabel (1855); Elijah Ridings, from The Village Muse, Containing the Complete Poetical Works of E. Ridings (1854); Ernest Jones, from The Battle Day and Other Poems (1855); selection of Chartist poems published in The Northern Star, together with a range of broadsides, popular verses and songs by concert hall artists and balladeers; Index Volume 3: 1860-1900 Edited by John Goodridge Mary Smith (1822-1889), from Poems, By M.S. [Mary Smith, of Carlisle] (1860); Progress, and Other Poems By M.S. (1873); The Autobiography of Mary Smith, Schoolmistress and Nonconformist. A Fragment of a Life. With Letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle (1892); Miscellaneous Poems (1892); Louisa A. Horsfield, from The Cottage Lyre: Being Miscellaneous Poetry (1862); Ruth Wills, from Lays of Lowly Life (1862); John Leatherland, from Essays and Poems with a brief Autobiographical Memoir (1862); John Askham, from Sonnets on the Months: and other Poems (1863); Janet Hamilton, from Poems And Essays (1863); from Poems of Purpose and Sketches in Prose of Scottish Peasant Life and Character in Auld Langsyne (1865); from Poems And Ballads (1868); Samuel Laycock, from Lancashire Rhymes: or, Homely pictures of the People (1864); Collected Writings (1900); John Macleay Peacock, from Poems and Songs (1864), Hours of Reverie (1867); Poems (1880); Joseph Ramsbottom, from Phases of Distress: Lancashire Rhymes (1864); Ben Brierley, from Home Memories (1866); from Spring Blossoms and Autumn Leaves (1893); from Humorous Rhymes (1894); J.W. Dalby, from Tales, Songs and Sonnets (1866); Ellen Johnston, from her Autobiography, Poems and Songs of Ellen Johnston, The Factory Girl (1867); Edward Capern, from Wayside Warbles (1870); Fanny Forrester, 'Strangers in the City', and other poems published in Ben Brierley's Journal (1870-1880); Joseph Burgess, from A Potential Poet? His Autobiographical Verse (c.1874); Noah Cooke, from Wild Warblings (1876); Edwin Waugh, from Poems and Lancashire Songs (1876); Jessie Russell, from The Blinkin' o' the Fire (1877); Henry Shanks, from The Peasant Poets Of Scotland And Musing Under The Beeches (1881); Robert Maybee, from Sixty-eight Years' Experience on the Scilly Islands (1884); John Bedford Leno, from The Last Idler, and Other Poems (1889), The Aftermath; with Autobiography of the Author (1892); Joseph Skipsey, from Songs and Lyrics (1892); John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues (1893-5); Ballads and Songs (1894); selection of popular and dialect verses and songs by Tommy Armstrong (1848-1920) and others; Index