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 |5 pages

John Freeth (1731-1808)

chapter |29 pages

Edward Rushton (1756-1814)

chapter |3 pages

David Love (1750-1827)

chapter |6 pages

William Job (fl. 1785)

chapter |5 pages

William Newton (fl. 1785-90)

chapter |46 pages

Ann Yearsley (1753-1806)

chapter |13 pages

Robert Burns (1759-96)

chapter |13 pages

John Frederick Bryant (1753-91)

chapter |1 pages

George Campbell (c. 1761-1818)

chapter |2 pages

Gavin Wilson (fl. 1788)

chapter |10 pages

John Walker (fl. 1789)

chapter |17 pages

Elizabeth Hands (1746-1815)

chapter |5 pages

David Sillar (1760-1830)

chapter |1 pages

James Wheeler (c. 1718-88)

chapter |14 pages

Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)

chapter |10 pages

Elizabeth Bentley (1767-1839)

chapter |11 pages

John Learmont (fl. 1791-1818)

chapter |17 pages

William Lane (b. 1744)

chapter |20 pages

Janet Little (1759-1813)

chapter |7 pages

Ellen Taylor (fl. 1792)

chapter |6 pages

Samuel Thomson (1766-1816)

chapter |7 pages

Thomas Spence (1750-1814)

chapter |4 pages

John Forster (fl. 1797)

chapter |24 pages

Robert Anderson (1770–1833)

chapter |9 pages

William Gifford (1756–1826)