
Making Better Rhymes: Chartist Poetry and Working Class Struggle
Written by Mike Sanders
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Poetry
In the first of a series of articles on Chartist poetry and working class struggle, Dr. Mike Sanders traces the background to its development. Andy Croft in 'The Privatisation of Poetry' cites approvingly, Francis Combes's declaration that "Poetry belongs to everyone". As an aspiration, I couldn't agree more. In reality,…