ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |19 pages
Ann[e] Candler (1740–1814)
part |7 pages
Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823)
part |17 pages
William Holloway (1761–1854)
chapter |9 pages
From The Minor Minstrel (1808)
part |24 pages
Nathaniel Bloomfield (1759–After 1822)
chapter |20 pages
From An Essay on War (1803)
part |13 pages
Thomas Ba(t)chelor (fl. 1804–1809)
part |7 pages
Charlotte Richardson (1775–?1825)
chapter |2 pages
From Poems Written on Different Occasions (1806)
part |6 pages
James Hogg (1770–1835)
part |5 pages
George Bloomfield (1757–1831)
chapter |3 pages
The Poets at Odds
part |19 pages
Mary Bryan (fl. 1815–1829)
chapter |12 pages
From Sonnets and Metrical Tales (1815)
chapter |5 pages
From Unpublished Manuscripts
part |13 pages
John Mitford (1782–1831)
part |20 pages
James Chambers (1740–182?)
chapter |18 pages
From The Poetical Works of James Chambers (1820)
part |10 pages
John Clare (1793–1864)
part |8 pages
Robert Millhouse (1788–1839)
chapter |3 pages
From Blossoms (1823)
chapter |3 pages
From Sherwood Forest and Other Poems (1827)
part |9 pages
Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849)
part |27 pages
William Smith (fl. 1819–1826)
part |19 pages
John Shaw (fl. 1824–1836)
part |21 pages
James Bird (1788–1839)
chapter |6 pages
From Poetical Memoirs; The Exile, a Tale (1823)
part |17 pages
Thomas Wilson (1773–1858)
chapter |15 pages
From The Pitman’s Pay and Other Poems (1843)
part |15 pages
John Nicholson (1790–1843)
part |17 pages
Robert Franklin (fl. 1809–1851)
