Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern
Star, published over 1000 poems written by more than 350 poets - as
the readership of the Northern Star numbered hundreds of thousands,
these poems were amongst the most widely read of the Victorian era.
This 2009 book offers a complete record of all the poems published.
It asks a simple question: why did the writing and reading of
poetry play such an important role in Chartism's struggle to secure
fundamental democratic rights? It answers this question by
analysing the interplay between politics, aesthetics and history in
the aftermath of the Newport insurrection (1839), during the mass
strikes of 1842 and the year of European revolutions (1848).
Additionally, the book theorizes poetry's political agency and
examines the critical history of Chartist poetry.
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