Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poet, Good..

Taylor & Francis

Over 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries > Over 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 19th century. > CONTENTS OF VOLUME II -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- HENRY BROWN (fl.830\u201335) -- From The Mechanic\u2019s Saturday Night (1830) -- From Sunday: A Poem, in Three Cantos (1835) -- MARY MARIA COLLING (1805\u201353) -- From Fables and other Pieces in Verse (1831) -- To Robert Southey, Esq. Poet Laureate, &c. &c. On being told by Mrs. Bray, that he had most kindly noticed me and my little verses -- The Moon and the Cloud -- The Eagle and the Toad -- The Birth of Envy -- JOHN JONES (b.74) -- From Attempts in Verse by John Jones, an old Servant (1831) -- Lines, occasioned by reading the foi