Public Works
David Norbrook, 5 June 1986
The Faber Book of Political Verse
edited by Tom Paulin.
Faber, 481 pp., £17.50, May 1986,0 571 13947 7 Show More
edited by Tom Paulin.
Faber, 481 pp., £17.50, May 1986,
“... as it continued, albeit in diluted form, in the panegyrics of liberty by Akenside, Collins, Thomson and others. He includes Gray’s Elegy because of its compassion for the poor, but one might expect a radical poet to be a bit less dismayed at the fact that Cromwell was born. Paulin is more at home in the Romantic period: a particular interest of this ... ”