The literature of labour
Subtitle: illustrious instances of the education of poetry in poverty
By: by Edwin Paxton Hood
Edition: 2nd ed., rev., corr., and materially enl.
Publisher: Partridge and Oakey
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Working class authors; English Poets
Notes: Publisher's advertisements: [3] p. preceding t.-p.
Table of contents: title: The divinity of labour.; title: Literature and prudence. Thomas Gent, the printer of York; and "wonderful Robert Walker," the curate, of Cumberland.; title: Cedmon the ploughman, the first English poet.; title: Taylor, the water poet.; title: Robert Nicoll, the kine herder.; title: John Clare, the peasant poet.; title: James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd; and James Hislop: with some remarks upon Burns.; title: Bloomfield and Cooper, the shoemakers: with a glance at the lives of Boehmen, George Fox, Samuel Drew, M. A., Dr. Carey, Dr. Morrison, Edmund Gill, of York; Joseph Blackett, of Richmond; William Gifford, Holcroft, and T. H. Horne.; title: Hugh Miller, the scientific stone-mason.; title: Allan Cunningham, the Scottish Chatterton.; title: Literature and labour in France. Beranger and Reboul.