Class, patronage, and poetry in Hanoverian England : Stephen Duck, the famous threshing poet /
In 1730 Stephen Duck became the most famous agricultural labourer in the Hanoverian England when his writing won him the patronage of Queen Caroline. Duck and his writing intrigued his contemporaries. How was it possible for an agricultural labourer to become a poet? What would a thresher write? Did...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford English monographs.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 'A Man... grown up into an Excellent Poet all at once': Making the Poet p. 12
- 2 'Tis agreeable to see what use he has made of his Reading': Writing 'The Thresher's Labour' p. 40
- 3 'From the Author's own Original Manuscript': Publishing 'the famous Threshing Poet' p. 59
- 4 'For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write': Becoming 'the famous Threshing Poet' p. 78
- 5 'The Duty of a grateful Muse': Writing at Court p. 91
- 6 'Various Beauties overpay my Toil': Reimagining Landscape and Labour p. 115
- 7 'Too Severe on the Female Sex'?: Negotiating Class and Gender p. 137
- 8 'A very agreeable Conversation': Making Friends with Horace p. 154
- 9 'Some Gentleman-like Title, as that of The Revd': Joining the Clergy p. 173.