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.
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