Working-Class Poetry

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Includes Database of British and Irish Labouring-Class Poets and some short biographical sketches)

Commentaries on poems – and sometimes their authors – published in 19C local newspapers

Named after the Chartist poet Gerald Massey, the site includes biographical sketches or authors, transcripts of their work etc, memoirs and poetry)

Online collection of contemporary poetry by and about the American working class. Also links to anthologies and critical studies. Compiled by Ron Morhing’s class, Lycoming College)