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Author:   Jennifer Batt (Lecturer in English, Lecturer in English, University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.518kg
ISBN:  

9780198859666

ISBN 10:   019885966
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   18 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: 'All mankind would make a figure' 1: 'A Man grown up into an Excellent Poet all at once': Making the Poet 2: ''Tis agreeable to see what use he has made of his Reading': Writing 'The Thresher's Labour' 3: 'From the Author's own Original Manuscript': Publishing 'the famous Threshing Poet' 4: 'For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write': Becoming 'the famous Threshing Poet' 5: 'The Duty of a grateful Muse': Writing at Court 6: 'Various Beauties overpay my Toil': Reimaging Landscape and Labour 7: 'Too Severe on the Female Sex'?: Negotiating Class and Gender 8: 'A very agreeable Conversation': Making Friends with Horace 9: 'Some Gentleman-like Title, as that of The Revd': Joining the Clergy Conclusion: 'The Bard may die - the Thresher still survive'

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The first monograph devoted to working-class poet Stephen Duck (1705-56) to appear in some hundred years, Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England is more than a critical study of a single poet, though it is that. Batt (Univ. of Bristol, UK) also uses Duck to explore issues of class and patronage in 18th-century Britain. ... A valuable resource on 18th-century culture and poetry. -- A. W. Lee, CHOICE

The first monograph devoted to working-class poet Stephen Duck (1705-56) to appear in some hundred years, Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England is more than a critical study of a single poet, though it is that. Batt (Univ. of Bristol, UK) also uses Duck to explore issues of class and patronage in 18th-century Britain. ... A valuable resource on 18th-century culture and poetry. * A. W. Lee, CHOICE *

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Jennifer Batt is a Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol

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