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Research paper thumbnail of Robert Bloomfield: Lyric, Class, and the Romantic Canon

Research paper thumbnail of Literature and Nature

Papers by Bridget Keegan

Research paper thumbnail of A Catalogue of British and Irish Labouring-class and Self-taught Poets c. 1700-1900

This is the latest version of this descriptive listing of labouring-class and self-taught poets a... more This is the latest version of this descriptive listing of labouring-class and self-taught poets and poetry, over half a million words, giving bibliographical and biographical and critical information on 2,386 named poets.

Research paper thumbnail of Nostalgic Chatterton: Fictions of Poetic Identity and the Forging of a Self-Taught Tradition

Nick Groom (New York: St. Martin's, Jan 1, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Literature and nature: four centuries of nature writing

Research paper thumbnail of COBBLING VERSE: SHOEMAKER POETS OF THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY- …, Jan 1, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Robert Bloomfield

Bucknell University Press

Research paper thumbnail of The Mean Unletter'd--female Bard of Aberdeen!: The Complexities of Christian Milne's Simple Poems on Simple Subjects

Research paper thumbnail of Mysticisms and Mystifications: The Demands of Laboring-Class Religious Poetry

Criticism, Jan 1, 2007

It is perhaps an underappreciated fact that Susannah Harrison's 1780 Songs in the Night ... more It is perhaps an underappreciated fact that Susannah Harrison's 1780 Songs in the Night was one of the best-selling collections written by a laboring-class poet in the late eighteenth century. Comprising religious meditations and versifications of scripture, Harrison's single ...

Research paper thumbnail of Lambs to the Slaughter: Leisure and Laboring-Class Poetry

Romanticism on the Net, Jan 1, 2002

The idea of leisure is essential to understanding how laboring-class poets conceived of themselve... more The idea of leisure is essential to understanding how laboring-class poets conceived of themselves as writers, what they imagined the activity of poetic composition to be, and what kinds of poetic forms they felt were available to them. Further, in their poems exploring the concept of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Robert Bloomfield: lyric, class, and the romantic canon

Robert Bloomfield Lyric, Class, and the Romantic Canon Edited by SIMON WHITE, JOHN GOODRIDGE, and... more Robert Bloomfield Lyric, Class, and the Romantic Canon Edited by SIMON WHITE, JOHN GOODRIDGE, and BRIDGET KEEGAN The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem by Robert Bloomfield was published on March 1, 1800. It was an immediate success, going through seven ...

Research paper thumbnail of Georgic Transformations and Stephen Duck's" The Thresher's Labour"

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Jan 1, 2001

My contention is that in the poem Duck is just as concerned with engaging the debate about the fo... more My contention is that in the poem Duck is just as concerned with engaging the debate about the formal nature and purpose of the georgic (particularly as it was articulated by Joseph Addison in his preface to John Dryden's Virgil), as he was in describing the act of threshing. After ...

Research paper thumbnail of Snowstorms, Shipwrecks, and Scorching Heat The Climates of Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Locodescriptive Poetry

Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and …, Jan 1, 2003

Page 1. BRIDGET KEEGAN Snowstorms, Shipwrecks, and Scorching Heat ... Yet without fail, soon as D... more Page 1. BRIDGET KEEGAN Snowstorms, Shipwrecks, and Scorching Heat ... Yet without fail, soon as Daylight doth spring, We in the Field again our Work begin, And there with all our Strength our Toil renew, Till Titan'sgolden rays have dry'd the Dew. (111-18) ...

Research paper thumbnail of Questioning Canonicity

The eighteenth- …, Jan 1, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of " Bred a Jesuit":" A Simple Story" and Late Eighteenth-Century English Catholic Culture

Huntington Library Quarterly, Jan 1, 2008

I would like to thank my colleague Reverend Raymond Bucko, SJ, for his guidance in explaining the... more I would like to thank my colleague Reverend Raymond Bucko, SJ, for his guidance in explaining the nuances of Ignatian spirituality and Reverend Thomas M. McCoog, SJ, Archivist of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, for his helpful insights into historical aspects of Inchbald ...

Research paper thumbnail of Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions

A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, Jan 1, 2000

29 Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions Bridget Keegan THUS shall Tradition keep my Fame aliv... more 29 Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions Bridget Keegan THUS shall Tradition keep my Fame alive; The Bard may die, the Thresher still survive. (A Description of a Journey To Marlborough, Bath, Portsmouth, &c. To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount ...

Research paper thumbnail of Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse

… to English literature from 1740 to …, Jan 1, 2004

Page 298. i6 JOHN GOODRIDGE AND BRIDGET KEEGAN Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse ... more Page 298. i6 JOHN GOODRIDGE AND BRIDGET KEEGAN Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse Like the thresher poet Stephen Duck a century earlier, John Clare (1793-1864) has always had a place in the literary histories, if only as a biographi-cal footnote. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Snowstorms, Shipwrecks, and Scorching Heat

Interdisciplinary studies in …, Jan 1, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Writing Against the Current: Anne Wilson's Teisa and the Tradition of British River Poetry

Womenʼs Studies, Jan 1, 2002

One of the very few works by a woman within the subgenre of river poetry, Anne Wilson's ... more One of the very few works by a woman within the subgenre of river poetry, Anne Wilson's 1600-line poem Teisa: A Descriptive Poem of the River Teese, Its Towns and Antiquities (1778) appears, at first, to fulfill all of the conventions of eighteenth-century ...

Research paper thumbnail of Clare's River Poetry

Journal article by Bridget Keegan; Wordsworth Circle, Jan 1, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of A Catalogue of British and Irish Labouring-class and Self-taught Poets c. 1700-1900

This is the latest version of this descriptive listing of labouring-class and self-taught poets a... more This is the latest version of this descriptive listing of labouring-class and self-taught poets and poetry, over half a million words, giving bibliographical and biographical and critical information on 2,386 named poets.

Research paper thumbnail of Nostalgic Chatterton: Fictions of Poetic Identity and the Forging of a Self-Taught Tradition

Nick Groom (New York: St. Martin's, Jan 1, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Literature and nature: four centuries of nature writing

Research paper thumbnail of COBBLING VERSE: SHOEMAKER POETS OF THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY- …, Jan 1, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Robert Bloomfield

Bucknell University Press

Research paper thumbnail of The Mean Unletter'd--female Bard of Aberdeen!: The Complexities of Christian Milne's Simple Poems on Simple Subjects

Research paper thumbnail of Mysticisms and Mystifications: The Demands of Laboring-Class Religious Poetry

Criticism, Jan 1, 2007

It is perhaps an underappreciated fact that Susannah Harrison's 1780 Songs in the Night ... more It is perhaps an underappreciated fact that Susannah Harrison's 1780 Songs in the Night was one of the best-selling collections written by a laboring-class poet in the late eighteenth century. Comprising religious meditations and versifications of scripture, Harrison's single ...

Research paper thumbnail of Lambs to the Slaughter: Leisure and Laboring-Class Poetry

Romanticism on the Net, Jan 1, 2002

The idea of leisure is essential to understanding how laboring-class poets conceived of themselve... more The idea of leisure is essential to understanding how laboring-class poets conceived of themselves as writers, what they imagined the activity of poetic composition to be, and what kinds of poetic forms they felt were available to them. Further, in their poems exploring the concept of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Robert Bloomfield: lyric, class, and the romantic canon

Robert Bloomfield Lyric, Class, and the Romantic Canon Edited by SIMON WHITE, JOHN GOODRIDGE, and... more Robert Bloomfield Lyric, Class, and the Romantic Canon Edited by SIMON WHITE, JOHN GOODRIDGE, and BRIDGET KEEGAN The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem by Robert Bloomfield was published on March 1, 1800. It was an immediate success, going through seven ...

Research paper thumbnail of Georgic Transformations and Stephen Duck's" The Thresher's Labour"

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Jan 1, 2001

My contention is that in the poem Duck is just as concerned with engaging the debate about the fo... more My contention is that in the poem Duck is just as concerned with engaging the debate about the formal nature and purpose of the georgic (particularly as it was articulated by Joseph Addison in his preface to John Dryden's Virgil), as he was in describing the act of threshing. After ...

Research paper thumbnail of Snowstorms, Shipwrecks, and Scorching Heat The Climates of Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Locodescriptive Poetry

Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and …, Jan 1, 2003

Page 1. BRIDGET KEEGAN Snowstorms, Shipwrecks, and Scorching Heat ... Yet without fail, soon as D... more Page 1. BRIDGET KEEGAN Snowstorms, Shipwrecks, and Scorching Heat ... Yet without fail, soon as Daylight doth spring, We in the Field again our Work begin, And there with all our Strength our Toil renew, Till Titan'sgolden rays have dry'd the Dew. (111-18) ...

Research paper thumbnail of Questioning Canonicity

The eighteenth- …, Jan 1, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of " Bred a Jesuit":" A Simple Story" and Late Eighteenth-Century English Catholic Culture

Huntington Library Quarterly, Jan 1, 2008

I would like to thank my colleague Reverend Raymond Bucko, SJ, for his guidance in explaining the... more I would like to thank my colleague Reverend Raymond Bucko, SJ, for his guidance in explaining the nuances of Ignatian spirituality and Reverend Thomas M. McCoog, SJ, Archivist of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, for his helpful insights into historical aspects of Inchbald ...

Research paper thumbnail of Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions

A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, Jan 1, 2000

29 Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions Bridget Keegan THUS shall Tradition keep my Fame aliv... more 29 Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions Bridget Keegan THUS shall Tradition keep my Fame alive; The Bard may die, the Thresher still survive. (A Description of a Journey To Marlborough, Bath, Portsmouth, &c. To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount ...

Research paper thumbnail of Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse

… to English literature from 1740 to …, Jan 1, 2004

Page 298. i6 JOHN GOODRIDGE AND BRIDGET KEEGAN Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse ... more Page 298. i6 JOHN GOODRIDGE AND BRIDGET KEEGAN Clare and the traditions of labouring-class verse Like the thresher poet Stephen Duck a century earlier, John Clare (1793-1864) has always had a place in the literary histories, if only as a biographi-cal footnote. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Snowstorms, Shipwrecks, and Scorching Heat

Interdisciplinary studies in …, Jan 1, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Writing Against the Current: Anne Wilson's Teisa and the Tradition of British River Poetry

Womenʼs Studies, Jan 1, 2002

One of the very few works by a woman within the subgenre of river poetry, Anne Wilson's ... more One of the very few works by a woman within the subgenre of river poetry, Anne Wilson's 1600-line poem Teisa: A Descriptive Poem of the River Teese, Its Towns and Antiquities (1778) appears, at first, to fulfill all of the conventions of eighteenth-century ...

Research paper thumbnail of Clare's River Poetry

Journal article by Bridget Keegan; Wordsworth Circle, Jan 1, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of The eighteenth-century literature handbook

Research paper thumbnail of Romantic Labouring-Class Pastoral as Eco-Queer Camp

Romanticism on the Net, Jan 1, 2004

The few eighteenth-century and Romantic labouring-class poems that have been recuperated within r... more The few eighteenth-century and Romantic labouring-class poems that have been recuperated within recent efforts at canon revision appear to have attracted critical attention primarily because they represent the authentic hardships of the working poor, thereby suggesting a nascent ...