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mark gregory Origins: Songs from the Chartist movement (32) RE: Origins: Songs from the Chartist movement 20 Sep 12


The first comprehensive collection of Chartist songs and poems was a Russian study published in 1956 (The commentary is all in Russian while the songs poems and literary writing is in English)

Y. V. Kovalev. An Anthology of Chartist Literature. Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1956.

More recently there are:

Mike Sanders. The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Ned Newitt, The Anthology of Leicester Chartist Song, Poetry & Verse. Leicester: Leicester Pioneer, 2006.

Ulrike Schwab. The Poetry of the Chartist Movement: A Literary and Historical Study. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1993.

Peter Scheckner. An Anthology of Chartist Poetry: Poetry of the British Working Class, 1830s-1850s. Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989.

Many hundred's were published in the life of Chartist newspaper The Northern Star which became for a time the most widely read newspaper in Britain. At one stage the paper was receiving so much verse that the Editor wrote "Please stop sending any more poetry"


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