This essay examines the poetry of John Gregory (1831-1922) focusing on his four ‘Sonnets on Chatterton’s Church, Bristol’ (1877) and verses ‘Concerning Chatterton’ (1908). In the long history of tributary poems to the Redcliffe poet Thomas Chatterton (1752-70), Gregory’s are distinctive. The sonnet sequence celebrates the church that had ins…[Read more]

This is a full scholarly edition of John Philips’s influential georgic poem Cyder (1708), with a particular emphasis on the political, historical and agricultural themes of the poem. The editors are John Goodridge (Emeritus Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University) and Juan Christian Pellicer (Professor of English, University of Oslo).

This is a full scholarly edition of John Dyer’s influential and historically important georgic poem The Fleece (1757). The edition offers a rich annotation, especially on Dyer’s topographical, historical, agricultural and industrial themes, drawing on, among other things,, Dyer’s surviving notebooks and manuscripts. The editors are John Goodridge…[Read more]

A descriptive listing of labouring-class poets and poetry, giving brief bibliographical and biographical information on 2,340 named poets, extending into further discussion in many entries, with a chronological anonymous sampling. This is an ongoing project, regularly updated,