Over 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 19th century.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- HENRY BROWN (fl.830–35) -- From The Mechanic’s Saturday Night (1830) -- From Sunday: A Poem, in Three Cantos (1835) -- MARY MARIA COLLING (1805–53) -- From Fables and other Pieces in Verse (1831) -- To Robert Southey, Esq. Poet Laureate, &c. &c. On being told by Mrs. Bray, that he had most kindly noticed me and my little verses -- The Moon and the Cloud -- The Eagle and the Toad -- The Birth of Envy -- JOHN JONES (b.74) -- From Attempts in Verse by John Jones, an old Servant (1831) -- Lines, occasioned by reading the following printed bill, fixed in the beak of one in a group of five stuffed owls in the shop window of a bird stuffer, at Richmond, Yorkshire. -- My Nose -- The Children’s Dirge at the Interment of a Gold Fish -- On the Death of Gaffer Gun -- MARY HUTTON (fl. 1831–42) -- From Sheffield Manor, and other Poems (1831) -- The Prospect from Sheffield Manor Hill -- From The Happy Isle, and other Poems (1836) -- On the Poor Laws’ Amendment Bill -- From Cottage Tales and Poems by Mary Hutton (1842) -- On Reading the Distressing Account of John Clare’s Aberration of Mind -- On Reading a Letter in Frazer’s Magazine, for Sept. 1836; Said to be from the Ettrick Shepherd -- Madame Lavalette -- RICHARD FURNESS (1791–1857) -- From The Rag-Bag, a Satire in Three Cantos (1832) -- From The Poetical Works of Richard Furness (1858) -- The Village Boy -- To the Memory of Ebenezer Elliott, The Corn-Law Rhymer -- THOMAS LISTER (fl. 1834) -- From The Rustic Wreath (1834) -- The Yorkshire Hirings -- Wreck of the Rothsay-Castle -- The Home-expelled Britons -- JOHN YOUNGER (1785–1860) -- From Thoughts as they Rise (1834) -- From The Autobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker (1881) -- There’s a Poetry in Nature -- Solitary Reflections -- How Sweet were my Hours of Childhood’s Day -- EVAN MacCOLL (1808–98) -- From The Mountain Minstrel (1836) -- A May Morning in Glenshira -- Stanzas, on vi
