ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |39 pages

Henry Jones (1721–1770)

chapter |7 pages

James Eyre Weekes (fl. 1743–1753)

chapter |2 pages

Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791)

chapter |24 pages

Mary Leapor (1722–1746)

chapter |21 pages

James Maxwell (1720–1800)

chapter |17 pages

William Vernon (b. 1734)

chapter |7 pages

William Falconer (1732–1770)

chapter |17 pages

William Brimble (fl. 1765)

chapter |94 pages

James Woodhouse (1735–1820)

chapter |15 pages

Cuthbert Shaw (1739–1771)

chapter |12 pages

N. Elliot (fl. 1767–1776)

chapter |2 pages

Michael Bruce (1746–1767)

chapter |8 pages

Samuel Law (fl. 1772)

chapter |24 pages

John Bennet (fl. 1774–1796)

chapter |5 pages

Thomas Olivers (1725–1799)

chapter |28 pages

Christopher Jones (fl. 1775–1782)

chapter |21 pages

John Lucas (fl. 1776–1781)

chapter |9 pages

Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770)

chapter |11 pages

Anne Wilson (fl. 1778–?1783)

chapter |11 pages

Susannah Harrison (1752–1788)