CARPENTER, Edward (ed.); CRANE, Walter (illus.).

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Chants of Labour. A Song Book of the People. First edition of this compilation of socialist songs, including ironic settings to the National Anthem and "Rule Britannia". It was extremely popular and went through numerous editions into the 20th century."There was a long labour tradition of romantic art, exemplified best by the Chartist poetry and lyrics. Carpenter quite particularly drew from that tradition... Socialist romanticism (even communist romanticism) survived between the wars in poetry by the likes of Carpenter and Auden" (Hall, p. 171).World Cat records only one copy in the US, at the Huntington, and six in the UK: the British Library, National Library of Scotland, and the universities of Edinburgh, London, Oxford, and Warwick.

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