Labouring Class Poets

Labouring Class Poets

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Topics:

Elizabeth Hands, ‘A Poem, On the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant- Maid (1789)

Class and Gender in Poetry?

Language, Class, Gender

Pastoral, Georgic, Anti-Pastoral

Pope, the Heroic Couplet and Ideology

Duck, Collier and the Heroic Couplet

Stephen Duck, The Thresher’s Labour (1736)

Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in The Thresher’s Labour

Anti-Woman Tropes in The Thresher’s Labour

Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour (1739)

The Significance of The Woman’s Labour

The Beauty of Mary Leapor’s Verse

‘On Winter’

Crumble-Hall

Satire and the Limits of Resistance