Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Was Burns a Labouring-Class Poet?

Chapter 3 Constructing the Ulster Labouring-Class Poet: The Case of Samuel Thomson

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

Chapter 5 John Clare and the Triumph of Little Things

Chapter 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

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

Chapter 8 Samuel Ferguson’s Maudlin Jumble

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

Chapter 10 Edwin Waugh: The Social and Literary Standing of a Working-Class Icon