Poetry and Class

Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Late Middle Ages
	Introduction
	Literacy, Book Ownership, and the Representation of the ‘Illiterate’ Rebel
	Literary Representations of Social Class and Social Inequality
	Gentils and Nobles
	Poor Gentils and Gentry
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: The Early Modern Period
	Introduction
	Manuscripts and Printed Books
	Patronage
	The Professional Author
	Poetry and the Court
	Class, the Caroline Court, and the Civil War
	Royalist Poetry
	The Interregnum and After
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
	Introduction
	The English Language
	Poetry and Bookselling in the Mid to Late Eighteenth Century
	Class and Two Cultures
	The Plebeian Poet of Genius
	Stephen Duck
	Ann Yearsley
	Robert Dodsley
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: The Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Century
	Introduction
	Robert Bloomfield, William Wordsworth, and the Poor
		Poetry, the Public, and the Market
		Poetry, Criticism, and Class
		Shelley and Radical Politics
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century
	Introduction
	Chartist Poetry
	The Poor Law and Poor Pay
	The Second Reform Act144
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: The Twentieth Century: To the 1960s
	Poetry of the Great War
	Modernist Poetry
	Auden and the 1930s
	After the Second World War: Arts for All?
	The Movement
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: The Twentieth Century: After the 1960s
	Introduction
	Scholarship Boy: Education, Family, and Class
	Masculinity and Violence
	Mothers
	Northern Broadsides: Independent Presses, Regionality, and Class
	Inside and Out
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Index