Just out in 17th Century - my new article on Leonard Wheatcroft, the bard of Ashover, ”Poetry and the Politics of the Parish”. Featuring weathercocks, a non-elite manuscript miscellany, and lots of bellringing!
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This essay studies the social depth of seventeenth-century literature through the case of Leonard Wheatcroft (1627–1706), a Derbyshire tradesman and poet. Wheatcroft’s service as parish clerk was c...
