An Anthology of Chartist Poetry: Poetry of the British Working Class, 1830s-1850sPeter Scheckner Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989 - 353 pagina's Chartist poetry was written by and for workers. In contrast with the portrayal of workers by mainstream Victorian writers, Chartist verse is intellectual, complex, and socially conscious and reflects an international outlook. |
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... bread , " Our Great Redeemer cried ; Yet thousands moulder with the dead , Because that bread's denied . Denied ! -Yon living Sun that rolls In splendour through the sky , Proclaims in tones that reach the poles , That God does not deny ...
... bread , " Our Great Redeemer cried ; Yet thousands moulder with the dead , Because that bread's denied . Denied ! -Yon living Sun that rolls In splendour through the sky , Proclaims in tones that reach the poles , That God does not deny ...
Pagina 183
... bread ! - " The dogs love meat ; it would be no treat To dish for them the crumbs : There's a race , I think , call'd the Skilly - fed ; Suppose you give them the broken bread , To any one that comes ? " At the Queen's command , now ...
... bread ! - " The dogs love meat ; it would be no treat To dish for them the crumbs : There's a race , I think , call'd the Skilly - fed ; Suppose you give them the broken bread , To any one that comes ? " At the Queen's command , now ...
Pagina 203
... BREAD ( FROM THE FRENCH OF PIERRE DUPONT ) 1 When on the stream's deserted bank No busy mill shall fan the air , And ... Bread ! bread ! we must - we will have bread ! Grim hunger from the village comes— He enters through the city arch ...
... BREAD ( FROM THE FRENCH OF PIERRE DUPONT ) 1 When on the stream's deserted bank No busy mill shall fan the air , And ... Bread ! bread ! we must - we will have bread ! Grim hunger from the village comes— He enters through the city arch ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 15 |
ANONYMOUS VERSES AND SONGS | 59 |
A L | 82 |
Copyright | |
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Alton Locke arms banner battle blood brave bread British brothers called chains Charter Chartist Circular Chartist movement Chartist poetry Chester Gaol child Corn Laws crown dare dark despots Dickens dream E. P. Thompson earth Ebenezer Elliott England English Republic Ernest Jones eyes factory Feargus O'Connor freedom gather George Julian Harney Gerald Massey glorious glory God's gold grave hand Hark Harney hath heart heaven hope Hurrah Ibid John King labour land Leeds General Advertiser liberty literature live London Lord March Massey mighty millions National Trades Journal never night Northern Star O'Connor o'er oppression pauper peace people's poem poet poor prison Purgatory of Suicides radical Red Republican sing slaves smile social soul Star and Leeds Star and National starve tears thee thou throne toil tyrants verse voice William Lovett William Thom workers working-class wrong
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