Omschrijving
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.
'This series is a true intellectual collaboration, and it is difficult to imagine a better outcome.' Romanticism on the Net 'Mr Goodridge and his colleagues have performed a great labor; we are all in their debt.' The Scriblerian 'Extraordinarily helpful...[it] establishes lasting access to important primary materials, and it may supplement or correct unmediated database use.' Eighteenth-Century Studies
John Goodridge, Nottingham Trent University, is the author of Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry (1996) and editor of the John Clare Society Journal. Tim Burke is at St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill. William Christmas is at San Francisco State University. David Fairer is at the University of Leeds. Bridget Keegan is at Creighton University. Simon Kovesi is at Oxford Brookes University