The Origins Of Proletarian Poetics

<p><em><strong>Dare to write dare to win. A study of working-class poetry and poetics.</strong></em></p><p><strong>‘Do you love poetry?</strong> But like many people do you think only people like William Wordsworth Elizabeth Barrett-Browning Lord Tennyson and those from similar social backgrounds were writing verse in the 19th century the birth of capitalism?</p><p>This study seeks to illustrate that working-class poets and their supporters also wrote poetry in the same epoch a ‘hidden history.’ Yet this study goes beyond merely illuminating a tradition of working-class poets. It argues for a ‘proletarian poetic’ and that the future of aesthetics resides within this working-class poetic.’</p>