Class and the Canon: Constructing Labouring-Class Poetry and Poetics, 1780-1900

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; K.Blair Was Burns a Labouring-Class Poet?; N.Leask Constructing the Ulster Labouring-Class Poet: The Case of Samuel Thomson; J.Orr Sociable or Solitary? John Clare, Robert Bloomfield, Community and Isolation; J.Goodridge John Clare and the Triumph of Little Things; M.Gorji 'No more than as an atom 'mid the vast profound: Conceptions of Time in the Poetry of William Cowper, William Wordsworth, and Ann Yearsley; K.Andrews The Pen and the Hammer: Thomas Carlyle, Ebenezer Elliott, and the 'active poet'; M.Waithe Samuel Ferguson's Maudlin Jumble; M.Campbell Courtly Lays or Democratic Songs? The Politics of Poetic Citation in Chartist Literary Criticism; M.Sanders Edwin Waugh: The Social and Literary Standing of a Working-Class Icon; B.Hollingworth William Barnes's Place and Dialects of Connection; S.Edney Index