The Lab’ring Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebeian Poetry, 1730-1830
by William J. Christmas
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AuthorWilliam J. Christmas
HardbackOctober 2001 • ISBN 978-1611492026 • $109.00
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The Lab’ring Muses is the first study to bring together a wide range of verse published by laboring-class authors between 1730 and 1830. The book examines a total of sixteen case studies that establish a specifically English tradition of laboring-class poetics.