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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... look both proud and hale , Come here each day at us to gaze , Which fills us all with much amaze , To see their ignorant , ill - bred ways , And impudence wholesale ; More coarse than any silly clown , That comes to Chester Gaol ...
... look both proud and hale , Come here each day at us to gaze , Which fills us all with much amaze , To see their ignorant , ill - bred ways , And impudence wholesale ; More coarse than any silly clown , That comes to Chester Gaol ...
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... look back on the world - from my cell , And think I am not the less free Than the serf and the slave who in misery dwell In the street and the lane and the lea . What fetters have I that ye have not as well , Though your dungeon be ...
... look back on the world - from my cell , And think I am not the less free Than the serf and the slave who in misery dwell In the street and the lane and the lea . What fetters have I that ye have not as well , Though your dungeon be ...
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... look on a battle - field - that he Should bleed in the ranks of Tyranny ? Pauper ! if Bastile tales are true , What have the Throned done for you ? your blood must flow ; say ! shall it be To cement new prisons for Loyalty ? If ...
... look on a battle - field - that he Should bleed in the ranks of Tyranny ? Pauper ! if Bastile tales are true , What have the Throned done for you ? your blood must flow ; say ! shall it be To cement new prisons for Loyalty ? If ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 15 |
ANONYMOUS VERSES AND SONGS | 59 |
A L | 82 |
Copyright | |
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