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libre accès  Romanticism on the Net  Numéro 27, 2002  Romantic
Labor / Romantic Leisure  Sous la direction de Robert Anderson
Direction : Michael Eberle-Sinatra (directeur)  Éditeur :
Université de Montréal  ISSN : 1467-1255 (numérique)  DOI :
10.7202/006562ar  < PrécédentSuivant >  Lambs to the Slaughter:
Leisure and Laboring-Class Poetry  Bridget Keegan  Creighton
University     In 1766, former-footman turned publisher Robert
Dodsley introduced shoemaker-poet James Woodhouse's Poems on
Several Occasions by assuring readers that Woodhouse "generally
sits at his work with a pen and ink by him, and when he has made
a couplet he writes it down on his knee; so that he may not,
thereby, neglect the duties of a good husband and kind father;
for the same reason his hours for reading are often borrowed
from those usually allotted to sleep" (xiv). Dodsley's
description is typical of how eighteenth-