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What's Included in the EncyclopediaA list of postwar American poets whose profiles we have covered in the LE.
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please: they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
The article offers a comprehensive coverage of the group of poets of working-class origin who came to prominence in significant numbers during the eighteenth century and thereafter. Its range (discussing poets as diverse as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier, Robert Bloomfield, Ann Yearsley), depth and historical expanse (offering, in addition to critical reception, over 50 titles of recommended reading) recommend it as an indispensable reference tool to all scholars interested in the development of alternative poetic tendencies in the England of the 1800s and 1900s.
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