Labouring MusesUniversity of Delaware Press, 2001 - 364 стор. 'The Lab'ring Muses' is the first study to bring together a wide range of verse published by laboring-class authors between 1730 and 1830. The book examines a total of sixteen case studies that establish a specifically English tradition of laboring-class poetics. |
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BANCKS DODSLEY AND TATERSAL | 95 |
RESISTANCE AND ASSIMILATION IN THE WOMANS LABOUR | 115 |
A Muse unknown The Career of Henry Jones | 130 |
Writing as Work in Mid to LateCentury Plebeian Poetry | 157 |
WRITING FOR ALMS | 210 |
ELIZABETH HANDS ANSWERS THE POLITE CRITICS | 228 |
Class Dialogue Ann Yearsley Hannah More and the Power of Print | 235 |
Ensconced in the muses seat Bloomfield Clare and the Plebeian Tradition | 267 |
Henry Jones Bibliography | 297 |
Notes | 302 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Index | 353 |
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Сторінка 32 - The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue ; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired.
Сторінка 179 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
Сторінка 172 - Here no man tells my cups, nor, standing by, A waiter doth my gluttony envy, But gives me what I call and lets me eat; He knows below he shall find plenty of meat.
Сторінка 273 - tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse; Destroys life's intercourse; the social plan That rank to rank cements, as man to man: Wealth flows around him, Fashion lordly reigns; Yet poverty is his, and mental pains.
Сторінка 63 - As maggots crawl from out a perish'd nut. His hammer this, and that his trowel quits, And, wanting sense for tradesmen, serve for wits. By thriving men subsists each other trade ; Of every broken craft a Writer's made : Thus his material, Paper, takes its birth From tatter'd rags of all the stuff on earth.
Сторінка 239 - Pressing as her distresses are, if I did not think her heart was rightly turned I should be afraid of proposing such a measure, lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind, and, by exciting her vanity, indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we cannot mend her fortune without impairing her virtue.
Сторінка 140 - ... dance by night, Who frown with vanity, who smile with art, And ask the latest fashion of the heart, What care, what rules your heedless charms shall save, Each nymph your rival, and each youth your slave?
Сторінка 123 - Then comes our Mistress to us without fail, And in her Hand, perhaps, a Mug of Ale To cheer our Hearts, and also to inform Herself, what Work is done that very Morn; Lays her Commands upon us, that we mind Her Linen well, nor leave the Dirt behind...
Сторінка 57 - But nothing hath wrought such an alteration in this order of people, as the introduction of trade. This hath indeed given a new face to the whole nation, hath in a great measure subverted the former state of affairs, and hath almost totally changed the manners, customs, and habits of the people, more especially of the lower sort. The narrowness of their fortune is changed into wealth; the simplicity of their manners into craft ; their frugality into luxury ; their humility into pride, and their subjection...
Сторінка 21 - The present age, if we consider chiefly the state of our own country, may be styled with great propriety The age of Authors ; for perhaps, there never was a time in which men of all degrees of ability, of every kind of education, of every profession and employment, were posting with ardour so general to the press. The province of writing was formerly left to those, who...