Add to the list, of course, the poets gathered by Tom Leonard in Radical Renfrew.
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>From: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Poets & class
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>I think it should be noted that poets such as Duck, Clare, Burns,
>Hogg, Chatterton, were not exceptions. They are some of those who are
>still known and read out of a very large number of such poets, you
>could call it a movement, in the 18th & 19th Centuries in UK.
>Nottingham Trent University holds a database containing over 1400
>names. Six large volumes of "English Labouring Class Poetry" were
>published in 2003/5 under the general editorship of John Goodridge,
>with 129 poets in 2500 pages. Most of these had books published, some
>of which went into multiple editions and culminated in a collected
>poems. The audience for this industry was at first of a higher,
>educated, class interested in natural virtue and talent manifesting
>itself among the uneducated, but later the working-class poets also
>wrote for an audience of their fellows. They wrote several different
>kinds of poetry, -- rural-pastoral, urban-social, Romantic, political,
>dialect and comedy, Chartist songs...
>
>pr
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