Wednesday, March 21, 2007

 

British working class poetry, early 1800's

Found an interesting short article in the U.K. Guardian, about a large number of recently unearthed political protest poems written by workers in Britain during the early 1800's. The article, which includes a couple of the poems, is here.

Thanks to Jilly Dybka's Poetry Hut Blog, where I originally found the link to the article.

# posted by Lyle Daggett @ 6:40 PM
Comments:
I read that article too. I found it very interesting. It seemed there was also another article with a different view about the poetry posted as well. I think the second article was critical of the quality of the working class poetry. This is an intereting topic about working class work and how it is valued or devalued. The first article seemed to praise the poems. Recently someone made a comment about working class poetry being cliched and trite which I thought was an odd comment.
# posted by Blogger Sheryl : 1:13 AM, March 24, 2007
 
Sheryl, yes, I agree that's an odd comment about working class poetry being cliched and trite.

I work for a living in the billing department of a large corporation, and I read corporate memos and similar stuff all the time that seem to me to be cliched and trite (and seem to me not to say very much too).

Thanks for commenting.
# posted by Blogger Lyle Daggett : 9:45 PM, March 24, 2007
 
thank you Lyle, for coming by and leaving nice words. :)


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