UID:
almafu_9961152421502883
Format:
1 online resource (360 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78138-753-2
Content:
The edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose of Edward Rushton (1756--1814). Blinded by trachoma after an outbreak on the slaving ship in which he was a young officer, Rushton returned to Liverpool to scratch a living as a publican, newspaper editor, and finally bookseller and publisher. In his day Rushton was a well-known Liverpool poet and reformer, with an impressively wide range of causes (the Liverpool Blind School, the Liverpool Marine Society, and many radical political groups). Many of his songs, particularly the marine ballads, were very familiar in Britain and America. In the later Victorian period, as a particular version of romanticism began to dominate literary sensibilities, Rushton's overt politics fell from favour and he became rather obscure, at least by comparison with his like-minded (but much better off) friend William Roscoe. As the history of slavery abolition and other radical causes has come to be re-examined, the bicentenary of Rushton's death, falling in November 2014, has suggested an opportunity to take a new look at his remarkable career and impressive body of work. There has never been a critical edition of Rushton's poems. His own 1806 edition omits much, including what is his best-known work in modern times, the anti-slavery West-Indian Eclogues of 1787; the posthumous 1824 edition omits much from the 1806 collection while drawing in other work. The present edition works from the earliest datable sources, in newspapers, chapbooks, periodicals, and broadsides, providing a clean text with significant revisions and variants noted in the commentary. Unfamiliar words are glossed, and brief introductions and contextual commentaries, informed by the latest scholarship, are given for each piece of writing.
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction -- An Irregular ODE. -- To the PEOPLE of ENGLAND. -- THE DISMEMBER'D EMPIRE. -- WEST-INDIAN ECLOGUES -- The Neglected Tars of Britain -- NEGLECTED GENIUS: OR, TRIBUTARY STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF THE UNFORTUNATE CHATTERTON. -- POOR BEN. -- A SONG, Sung at the celebration of the anniversary of The French Revolution, at Liverpool, July 14, 1791. -- THE FIRE OF LIBERTY. -- HUMAN DEBASEMENT. a fragment. -- SEAMEN's NURSERY. -- STANZAS on the ANNIVERSARY of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- THE TENDER's HOLD. -- BLUE EYED MARY. -- ELEGY. [To the Memory of Robert Burns] -- SONNET. [The Swallow] -- THE REMEDY [THE LEVIATHAN.] -- SONG. [MARY LE MORE] -- written for the anniversary of the liverpool MARINE SOCIETY. -- SONG. [From Hymns, & -- c. for the Blind] -- THE MANIAC. -- LUCY's GHOST. a marine ballad. -- SONNET BY A POOR MAN. on the approach of the gout. -- WILL CLEWLINE. -- ODE. Sung at St. John's Chapel, Lancaster, on Tuesday last, being the Anniversary of the LANCASTER MARINE SOCIETY. -- Ode, To France. -- STANZAS ON BLINDNESS. -- TO A REDBREAST in november, Written near one of the Docks of Liverpool. -- SOLICITUDE. -- TOUSSAINT TO HIS TROOPS. -- on THE DEATH of HUGH MULLIGAN. -- TO A BALD-HEADED poetical friend. -- THE ARDENT LOVER. -- THE LASS OF LIVERPOOL. -- WOMAN. -- MARY'S DEATH. -- THE HALCYON. -- THE SHRIKE. -- BRITON, and NEGRO SLAVE. -- ABSENCE. -- ON THE DEATH of A MUCH LOVED RELATIVE. -- ENTREATY. -- A CAUTION TO MY FRIEND J. M. -- THE THROSTLE. -- THE COMPLAINT. -- THE PIER. -- MARY. -- THE ORIGIN of TURTLE AND PUNCH. -- PARODY of a passage in measure for measure. -- THE FAREWELL. -- THE RETURN. -- TO THE GOUT. -- on THE DEATH of MISS E. FLETCHER. -- THE CHASE. -- THE WINTER'S PASSAGE. -- STANZAS ON THE RECOVERY OF SIGHT.
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ADDRESSED TO MR. B. GIBSON, SURGEON OF MANCHESTER. -- LINES, To the Memory of William Cowdroy, Proprietor of the Manchester Gazette. -- THE FIRE OF ENGLISH LIBERTY. -- [LINES addressed to robt. southey, Esq. Poet Laureat on the publication of his "carmen triumphale"] -- THE EXILE'S LAMENT -- THE COROMANTEES. -- AN EPITAPH on john taylor, (of bolton le moors) who died of the yellow fever, at New York, Sept. 11, 1805. -- to the MEMORY OF BARTHOLOMEW TILSKI, a native of the north of poland, -- JEMMY ARMSTRONG. -- Expostulatory Letter to George Washington, of Mount Vernon, in Virginia, on his continuing to be a Proprietor of Slaves. (1797) -- [Letter to Thomas Paine] (written c. 1800 -- published 1809) -- [Monthly Retrospect of Politics] (1810) -- [Extracts from Letters] (written 1805-1813 -- published 1814) -- A FEW PLAIN FACTS relative to the origin of the Liverpool INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND. (written 1804 -- published 1817) -- AN ATTEMPT to prove that CLIMATE, FOOD, AND MANNERS, are not the Causes of the Dissimilarity of Colour in the human species. (unknown date -- published 1824) -- [Letter to Samuel Ryley] (written 1814 -- published 1903) -- Mr Rushton's Remarks on Slavery. (unknown date -- unpublished) -- [Letter to Thomas Walker] (written 1806 -- unpublished) -- Glossary -- Commentary: Poems -- Commentary: Prose -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78138-136-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3828/9781781381366
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