Class and the Canon

1. Introduction
Kirstie Blair

2. Was Burns a Labouring-Class Poet?
Nigel Leask

3. Constructing the Ulster Labouring-Class Poet: The Case of Samuel Thomson
Jennifer Orr

4. Sociable or Solitary? John Clare, Robert Bloomfield, Community and Isolation
John Goodridge

5. John Clare and the Triumph of Little Things
Mina Gorji

6. ‘No more than as an atom ’mid the vast profound’: Conceptions of Time in the Poetry of William Cowper, William Wordsworth, and Ann Yearsley
Kerri Andrews

7. The Pen and the Hammer: Thomas Carlyle, Ebenezer Elliott, and the ‘active poet’
Marcus Waithe

8. Samuel Ferguson’s Maudlin Jumble
Matthew Campbell

9. Courtly Lays or Democratic Songs? The Politics of Poetic Citation in Chartist Literary Criticism
Michael Sanders

10. Edwin Waugh: The Social and Literary Standing of a Working-Class Icon
Brian Hollingworth

11. William Barnes’s Place and Dialects of Connection
Sue Edney

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature