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 |31 pages

Edward Ward (1667-1731)

chapter |14 pages

Jane Holt (fl. 1682?-1717)

chapter |6 pages

Henry Nelson (fl. 1725-9)

chapter |19 pages

Edward Chicken (1698-1747)

chapter |47 pages

Robert Dodsley (1703-64)

chapter |6 pages

Anonymous (c. 1730)

chapter |54 pages

Stephen Duck (1705?-56)

chapter |49 pages

John Bancks (1709-51)

chapter |2 pages

John Frizzle (fl. 1733)

chapter |21 pages

Mary Masters (1694?-1771)

chapter |20 pages

Peter Aram (1667-1735)

chapter |35 pages

Robert Tatersal (fl. 1734-5)

chapter |37 pages

Mary Collier (1688?-1762)