{"product_id":"rhyming-weavers-and-other-country-poets-of-antrim-and-down-john-hewitt-tom-paulin","title":"Rhyming Weavers: And Other Country Poets Of Antrim And Down, John Hewitt (ed.)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the nineteenth century there was a remarkable flowering of peasant verse in the Ulster counties of Antrim and Down. Witty, irreverent and deeply egalitarian, these poems were written by working people - hand-loom weavers, small farmers and country school-masters - for people much like themselves. The poets wrote in the 'lively tongue' of the Ulster-Scots vernacular and drew their themes from the landscape and life of the community at a time when the making of flax into linen played a basic part in the economic and social pattern.\u003cbr\u003eJohn Hewitt's Rhyming Weavers is both a study and a celebration of the lives and work of these country poets. His extended introduction provides an account of the context in which the poets wrote and is complemented by a select anthology that includes poems by well-known local bards such as David Herbison, James Orr and Samuel Thomson.\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1974, Hewitt's anthology was an act of recovery, an excavation of a vibrant aspect of Ulster's literary history. Reissued now, thirty years later, with a new foreword by Tom Paulin, Rhyming Weavers remains a seminal work, making an important contribution to Ulster-Scots writing and to debates about language and identity in these islands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstaff Pr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60463264203086,"sku":"9780856407574","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9780856407574.webp?v=1787242213","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/rhyming-weavers-and-other-country-poets-of-antrim-and-down-john-hewitt-tom-paulin","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}