The Festive Wreath

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LibriVox recording of The Festive Wreath by Various. Read in English by Phil Benson The Festive Wreath, edited by John Bolton Rogerson, and subtitled 'A Collection of Contributions Read at a Literary Meeting Held in Manchester, March 24th 1842 at the Sun Inn Long Millgate' was the first published collection of work by Lancashire Poets. Local poets had been gathering at the Sun Inn since 1840 around John Critchley Prince who was a regular drinker there. Spotting a business opportunity, landlord William Earnshaw, renamed the inn 'Poets Corner' and held more formal events, including the 'Festival of Poetry' with 40 poets iand a journalist from the Manchester Guardian in attendance, that led to the publication of the Festive Wreath. The Sun Inn Group, as it became known, consisted of a mixture of working class and wealthier poets, of whom the wealthiest was the so-called 'Bard of Colour', Richard Rose, a plantation owner from the Carribbean. It was a male-dominated group and meetings were often rowdy with singing and much drinking - the four female poets whose contributions appear in the collection did not attend the festival. The contents of the collection tend toward a classical styl…

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Various

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librivox; audiobooks;Lancashire; Manchester

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