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The Poorhouse FugitivesBrian MaidmentEdited by Brian Maidment
Imprint: Fyfield Books
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (80 pages) (Pub. Aug 1995) 9780856359705 Out of Stock
`The great mass of writing by what one
might broadly term "working-class Victorians" is only now receiving proper attention. This book is a major contribution to that process.' Times Educational Supplement
Three traditions are represented in this anthology: a Chartist and radical literature, a Parnassian strand, and a deliberately local manner, often steeped in dialect. This is a literature poised between speech and print, between the anonymous street ballad and the literary lyric. From common themes and common failings powerful individual voices emerge; many of them have not been heard since the days of their original publication. Brian Maidment has recovered something important for the modern reader, providing a working anthology and a guide for further exploration.
Dr Brian Maidment is the Head of English at Edge Hill College of Higher Education.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction List of Illustrations 1 CHARTISTS AND RADICALS Introduction The Two Weavers - Alexander Rodger A Bundle of Truths - Alexander Rodger Whisperings for the Unwashed - William Thom Chartist Lyrics When the World is Burning - Ebenezer Jones The Gathering of the People - W.J. Linton The Steam King - E.P. Mead Labour Song - James Syme The Song of the Low - Ernest Jones A Chartist Chorus - Ernest Jones Just Instinct and Brute Reason - A Manchester Operative The Black Hole of Calcutta - Ebenezer Elliott The Press - Ebenezer Elliott The Awakening of the People - Gerald Massey Two Chartist Songs - Thomas Cooper Melodrama, Pathos, and Narrative Song - Ebenezer Elliott Revenge - W.J. Linton The Food-Rioter Banished - William Thom Historical Narratives Leawood Hall - Ernest Jones Bob Thin, or the Poorhouse Fugitive - W.J. Linton Later Radical Lyrics Preawd Tum's Prayer - Joseph Ramsbottom Ten Heawrs a Day - Joseph Ramsbottom Mother Wept - Joseph Skipsey The Stars are Twinkling - Joseph Skipsey Get Up - Joseph Skipsey 2 THE PARNASSIANS Introduction Poems of Social Indignation Steam at Sheffield - Ebenezer Elliott The Village Patriarch - Ebenezer Elliott The Death of the Factory Child - J.C. Prince Patriotism - George Richardson Philosophical, Discursive and Historical Poems The Mind - Charles Swain Night - Thomas Cleaver The Purgatory of Suicides - Thomas Cooper The Isles of Britain - Elijah Ridings 'Such Gems as Morland Drew' A Spring Song - John Bethune Summer Morning - Thomas Miller My Own Hills - Robert Story The Mossy Stane - Robert Nicoll My Latest Publication - Edward Capern The City Observed, the City Repressed A Winter Night in Manchester - Philip Connell Manchester - J.B. Rogerson The Lowly Bard - Fanny Forrester The City Singers - J.L. Owen Salford Bridge - William Billington Dedicatory, Celebratory, and Memorial Poems The Poet's Corner - Alexander Wilson Robin Burns - Gerald Massey Gerald Massey - William Billington To the Memory of William Billington - George Hull To the Memory of Ebenezer Elliott - Richard Furness Genius and Intemperance The Sabbath Peal - Thomas Nicholson John Barleycorn's Diary - Cornelius McManus Genius and Intemperance - John Nicholson The Subject of Poetry The Minstrel's Lot - J B Rogerson The Poesy - J.C. Prince The Poet's Sabbath - J.C. Prince The Poet's Mission - Ernest Jones Sonnet to Poesy - James Waddington Genius - James Waddington The Brooklet - Joseph Skipsey The Minstrel - Joseph Skipsey Random Thoughts on Poetry - J.C. Prince Preface - Gerald Massey The Uses and Pleasures of Poetry for theWorking Classes - Janet Hamilton The Poet, as Seer and Singer - Joseph Skipsey 3 LOWLY BARDS AND HOMELY RHYMERS Introduction Poems from 'The People's Journal' Sonnets - Henry F. Lott Sonnets - Henry F. Lott My Friend's Library - Henry F. Lott The November Primrose - John Dacres Devlin Fellow Workers - 'Marie' Heroisms - 'Marie' Labour - 'Marie' The People's Sabbath Prayer - Ebenezer Elliott The Dream of the Artisan - G.R. Emerson 'We Are Low' Poems We Are Lowly - Robert Nicoll We May Be Low, We May Be Poor - Thomas Blackah Lancashire Bards Homely Rhymes on Bad Times - Samuel Bamford The Bard's Reformation - Samuel Bamford Farewell to My Cottage - Samuel Bamford The Landowner - Samuel Bamford Simple Minstrelsy - Elijah Ridings My Uncle Tum - Elijah Ridings Cultivate Your Men - Edwin Waugh The Man of the Time - Edwin Waugh I've Worn My Bits o'Shoon Away - Edwin Waugh Homely advoice to th' Unemployed - Samuel Laycock The Shurat Weaver's Song - Samuel Laycock Bowton's Yard - Samuel Laycock What! Another Cracked Poet - Samuel Laycock Sorrowin - Joseph Ramsbottom Coaxin - Joseph Ramsbottom Some Other Local Bards Rhymes for the Times - Janet Hamilton A Warkin' Mon's Reflections - Janet Hamilton The People - Thomas Ince A Workman's Home - Thomas Ince The Factory Girl - Bill o'th Hoylus End A Labourer's Song - James Dawson A Song of Labour - Alexander Anderson The Toiler's Wife - George Hull 4 THE METROPLITAN RESPONSE TO SELF-TAUGHT WRITING Introduction English Bards and Scotch Reviewers - Lord Byron Burns - Thomas Carlyle Lives and Works of our Unlettered Poets - Robert Southey The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties - G.L. Craik Corn Law Rhymes - Thomas Carlyle Ebenezer Elliott - George Gilfillan The Condition of the Working Class In England - Friedrich Engels Homes and Haunts of the British Poets - William Howitt Burns and his School - Charles Kingsley Review of Evans's Lancashire Orators - Anon. The Influence of Poetry on the Working Classes - F.W. Robertson A Biographical Sketch of Gerald Massey - (Samuel Smiles) A Hedge-side Poet - Diane Mulock The Peerage of Poverty - Edwin Paxton Hood 5 THE DIFFICULTIES OF APPEARING IN PRINT Introduction Journals - John Clare The Difficulties of Appearing in Print - Charles Fleming Alton Locke - Charles Kingsley The Poet's Dream - Elijah Ridings Prefaces and letters - J.C. Prince A Sketch of the Author's Life - William Heaton Advertisement to Poems of John Nicholson - W. Dearden Preface to Beggar Manuscripts - Thomas Ince Unpublished letters to Edwin Waugh - Various authors 6 THE DEFENCE OF THE DIALECT Introduction North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell Goosegrave Penny Readings - Ben Brierley Writing in the Dialect - Joseph Ramsbottom The Lancashire Dialect - Ben Brierley Introduction Essay on Dialect - George Milner The Dialect in Distress - Joseph Cronshaw Suggested Further Reading Index of Authors Represented |
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