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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... dead Hope , denied sepulture , / Roams a weary ghost apart . " Should he " care to struggle " in a world of political reaction ? The poem might have been written in the dark days of the 1940s , when the " heavy tread / Of the Nations ...
... dead Hope , denied sepulture , / Roams a weary ghost apart . " Should he " care to struggle " in a world of political reaction ? The poem might have been written in the dark days of the 1940s , when the " heavy tread / Of the Nations ...
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... dead in soul arise ? — The dreadful glare of sullen eyes Alone warn'd cruel tyranny ! A murmur from a trampled worm , A whisper in the cloudless storm— Yet these , even these , announced Reform ; And Famine's scowl was prophecy ! Nor ...
... dead in soul arise ? — The dreadful glare of sullen eyes Alone warn'd cruel tyranny ! A murmur from a trampled worm , A whisper in the cloudless storm— Yet these , even these , announced Reform ; And Famine's scowl was prophecy ! Nor ...
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... dead to the deep , till the darkness came down : But the angel who blasteth , unheard and unseen , Bade the tyrants lie low where their victims had been : And down dropp'd the waves , and stone - still hung the sail , And black sank the ...
... dead to the deep , till the darkness came down : But the angel who blasteth , unheard and unseen , Bade the tyrants lie low where their victims had been : And down dropp'd the waves , and stone - still hung the sail , And black sank the ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 15 |
ANONYMOUS VERSES AND SONGS | 59 |
A L | 82 |
Copyright | |
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