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Ebenezer Elliott

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Sep 14, 2026

Michelle EatonNARRATOR
79:32
1847, Tancred, The Church and the State.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
79:36
Ebenezer Elliot, 1781-1849.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
79:39
1828, Cornlaw Rhymes, The Poet of the Workers and of Sorrow.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
79:47
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, 1810-1865.
Annie HillNARRATOR
26:53
Robin Redbreast, Dickie Swallow, Philip Sparrow, Tom Tit, Tom a Bedlam, and after him came the Abram men.
Annie HillNARRATOR
27:04
who were sane parodies of the crazed and went to the fairs and wakes in motley evelyn says of a fop all his body was dressed like a maypole or a tom a bedlam's cap but after the civil wars they vanished and no man knew how in time old men remembered them only to remember that they had not seen any such companies or solitary wanderers of late years the mad maid of the poets is a vagrant too when she is free and not singing with bedlam early in the morning in the spring wordsworth who dealt with the legendary fancy in his ruth makes the crazed one a wanderer in the hills whom a traveller might see by chance rare as an orede and nearly as wild as echo herself i too have passed her in the hills setting her little water-mills his heart misgives him to think of the rheumatism that must befall in such a way of living and his grave sense of civilisation bourgeois in the humane and noble way that is his own restores her after death to the company of man to the holy bell which shakespeare's duke remembered in banishment and to the congregation and their christian song the older poets were less responsible less serious and more sad than wordsworth when they in turn were touched by the fancy of the maid crazed by love they left her to her light immortality and she might be drenched in dews they would not desire to reconcile nor bury her she might have her hair torn by the bramble but her heart was light after trouble many light hearts and wings she had at least the bird's heart and the poet lent to her voice the wings of his verses there is nothing in our poetry less modern than she the vagrant woman of latter feeling was rather the sane creature of ebenezer elliott's fine lines in the excursion bone-weary many-childed trouble tried
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Michelle EatonNARRATOR
68:12
The corn law repealers had fought for years to bring this about.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
68:16
Their leader and poet, Ebenezer Elliot, declared that what they wanted was bread in exchange for their cottons, woolens and hardware and no other thing can supply the want of that one thing any more than water could supply the want of air.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
68:34
in the black hole of calcutta bad government is the deadly will that takes what labour ought to keep it is the deadly power that makes bread dear and labour cheap it was not until there had been many riots and much bloodshed that the irish famine forced peel at last to give way a third party of reformers were working for the same end this was the young england party whose leader was disraeli a rising young politician By birth a Jew, he had joined the English church and the ranks of the Tory party.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
69:08
His early works are chiefly sketches of social and political life, and are not concerned with the question of the people.

9 MINS LATER

Michelle EatonNARRATOR
78:14
1845, Sybil, The Claims of the People.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
78:19
1847, Tancred, The Church and the State.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
78:23
Ebenezer Elliot, 1781-1849.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
78:25
1828, Corn Law Rhymes, The Poet of the Workers and of Sorrow.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
71:02
The corn law repealers had fought for years to bring this about.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
71:06
Their leader and poet, Ebenezer Elliot, declared that what they wanted was bread in exchange for their cottons woolens and hardware and no other thing can supply the want of that one thing any more than water could supply the want of air in the black hole of calcutta bad government is the deadly will that takes what labour ought to keep it is the deadly power that makes bred dear and labour cheap it was not until there had been many riots and much bloodshed that the irish famine forced peel at last to give way a third party of reformers were working for the same end this was the young england party whose leader was disraeli a rising young politician by birth a jew he had joined the english church and the ranks of the tory party His early works are chiefly sketches of social and political life and are not concerned with the question of the people.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
72:05
He took as his motto the word Shakespeare puts into ancient Pistol's mouth.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
72:10
Why then the world's mine oyster which I with sword will open? Thus showing at an early age that he had a firm belief in his own powers.

9 MINS LATER

Michelle EatonNARRATOR
81:19
1845, Sybil, The Claims of the People.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
81:24
1847, Tancred, The Church and the State.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
81:28
Ebenezer Elliot, 1781-1849.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
81:30
1828, Corn Law Rhymes, The Poet of the Workers and of Sorrow.
speaker_3NARRATOR
23:36
Robin Redbreast, Dickie Swallow, Philip Sparrow, Tom Tit, Tom a Bedlam, and after him came the Abram men.
speaker_3NARRATOR
23:47
who were sane parodies of the crazed and went to the fairs and wakes in motley evelyn says of a fop all his body was dressed like a maypole or a tom a bedlam's cap but after the civil wars they vanished and no man knew how in time old men remembered them only to remember that they had not seen any such companies or solitary wanderers of late years the mad maid of the poets is a vagrant too when she is free and not singing with bedlam early in the morning in the spring wordsworth who dealt with the legendary fancy in his ruth makes the crazed one a wanderer in the hills whom a traveller might see by chance rare as an orede and nearly as wild as echo herself i too have passed her in the hills setting her little water-mills his heart misgives him to think of the rheumatism that must befall in such a way of living and his grave sense of civilisation bourgeois in the humane and noble way that is his own restores her after death to the company of man to the holy bell which shakespeare's duke remembered in banishment and to the congregation and their christian psalm the older poets were less responsible less serious and more sad than wordsworth when they in turn were touched by the fancy of the maid crazed by love they left her to her light immortality and she might be drenched in dews they would not desire to reconcile nor bury her she might have her hair torn by the bramble but her heart was light after trouble many light hearts and wings she had at least the bird's heart and the poet lent to her voice the wings of his verses there is nothing in our poetry less modern than she the vagrant woman of latter feeling was rather the sane creature of ebenezer elliott's fine lines in the excursion bone-weary many-childed trouble tried wife of my bosom wedded to my soul trouble did not try the elizabethan wild one it undid her she had no child or if there had ever been a child of hers she had long forgotten how it died she hailed the wayfarer who was more weary than she with a song she haunted the cheerful dawn her good-morrow rings from herrick's poem fresh as a cock-crow she knows that her love is dead and her perplexity has regard rather to the many kinds of flowers than to the old story of his death they distract her in the splendid meadows all the tragic world paused to hear that litus of songs as the tragedy of hamlet pauses for the fitful voice of ophelia strange was the charm of this perpetual alien and unknown to us now the world has become once again as it was in the madmaid's heyday less serious and more sad than wordsworth but it has not recovered, and perhaps never will recover, that sweetness.
speaker_3NARRATOR
27:11
blake's was a more starry madness crabbe writing of village sorrows thought himself bound to recur to the legend of the mad maid but his crazed maiden is sane enough sorrowful but dull and sings of her own burning brow as herrick's wild one never sang nor is there any smile in her story though she talks of flowers or rather the herbs i loved to rear and perhaps she is the surest of all signs that the strange inspiration of the past centuries was lost, vanished like Tom a bedlam himself.
speaker_3NARRATOR
27:49
It had been wholly English, whereas the English eighteenth century was not wholly English.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
67:08
Sir Robert Peel was the first to remove this injustice by substituting a tax upon income for the 101 taxes which had pressed so heavily upon the poor.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
67:18
manufacturers were now able to buy their raw materials at a lower price and need no longer pay such low wages to keep up their profits in eighteen forty five peel went a step farther and in order to relieve the famine in ireland he removed the duty on corn thus since corn could now be imported free bread became cheaper the corn law repealers had fought for years to bring this about their leader and poet ebenezer elliott declared that what they wanted was bread in exchange for their cottons woolens and hardware and no other thing can supply the want of that one thing any more than water could supply the want of air in the black hole of calcutta bad government is the deadly will that takes what labour ought to keep it is the deadly power that makes bred dear and labour cheap it was not until there had been many riots and much bloodshed that the irish famine forced peel at last to give way a third party of reformers were working for the same end this was the young england party whose leader was disraeli a rising young politician by birth a jew he had joined the english church and the ranks of the tory party His early works are chiefly sketches of social and political life and are not concerned with the question of the people.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
68:43
He took as his motto the word Shakespeare puts into ancient Pistol's mouth.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
68:48
Why then the world's mine oyster which I with sword will open? Thus showing at an early age that he had a firm belief in his own powers.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
68:11
The corn law repealers had fought for years to bring this about.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
68:14
Their leader and poet, Ebenezer Elliot, declared that what they wanted was bread in exchange for their cottons, woolens and hardware and no other thing can supply the want of that one thing any more than water could supply the want of air in the black hole of Calcutta.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
68:34
Bad government is the deadly will that takes what Labour ought to keep.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
68:39
It is the deadly power that makes bread dear and Labour cheap.

10 MINS LATER

Michelle EatonNARRATOR
78:26
1845, Sybil, The Claims of the People.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
78:31
1847, Tancred, The Church and the State.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
78:35
Ebenezer Elliot, 1781-1849.
Michelle EatonNARRATOR
78:36
1828, Corn Law Rhymes, The Poet of the Workers and of Sorrow.

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