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Category: Poetry

1817…

How Robert Southey avoided getting “Cancelled”

27 Aug 202027 Aug 2020
By Stephen Basdeo The following is an adaptation of some of the material in my book The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler (2018). You’re an up-and-coming…
19th Century…

A Victorian “Commonplace Book”

11 Jul 2020
By Stephen Basdeo I recently got hold of a “Commonplace Book” which dates from 1859. Commonplace books have been a feature of home life since at least the 1600s. Most…
19th Century…

Lines Written by a New York Homeless Woman

30 Jun 2020
By Stephen Basdeo I recently came across a fascinating book titled Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (1891), which formed the basis of another post…
19th Century…

Poetry: I Had a Tender Mother Once

19 May 2020
One of my favourite writers of the nineteenth century was George William MacArthur Reynolds. Although we know him primarily as a journalist and novelist today, he composed original poetry in…
14th Century…

Poetry: The Rebellion of Wat Tyler and Jack Straw (c.1612)

17 May 2020
Unlike that other medieval hero and man of the people, Robin Hood, Wat Tyler does not enjoy an extensive ballad "afterlife." This song, first published in The Garland of Delight…
19th Century…

“Saxon Grit”

23 Apr 2020
St George’s Day seems as fitting time as ever to publish a “new” Robin Hood poem I found titled “Saxon Grit” in the archives of a long-defunct Christian socialist magazine…

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