tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post1532321566234932167..comments2024-03-19T10:12:43.882+00:00Comments on Bookride: The other John LennonBookridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881971821359627382noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-78788436828940107912011-11-04T05:24:42.732+00:002011-11-04T05:24:42.732+00:00"Above such selfish man-like fright,
We'd..."Above such selfish man-like fright,<br />We'd give fair play, let come what might..."<br /><br />I wonder was the word "bullshit" in use at the time?Joe Simpson Walkerhttp://www.joesimpsonwalker.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-2881770966990262652011-11-03T22:27:14.839+00:002011-11-03T22:27:14.839+00:00Amazing. Wonder who that is with John is it Stan a...Amazing. Wonder who that is with John is it Stan and those coats, would you say they were Fleetwood Macs?ruinednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-29733402422587471602011-11-02T18:04:45.596+00:002011-11-02T18:04:45.596+00:00Many thanks Edwin, Anon and Ralph -- yes it was fa...Many thanks Edwin, Anon and Ralph -- yes it was fascinating to find and research this book. Thanks Edwin for that piece about radical poets and Enoch Soames. Good to hear that deep searching can uncover traces of our weaver poet. Often a famous (or common name) can make such searches arduous but I do see, thanks to your recommendation Anon (and Google Books) that our JL gave evidence about the weavers plight at Parliamentary Sessions in 1835 and 1836. As JWL said -- 'we all shine on!'Bookridehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05881971821359627382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-85542444156669373872011-11-02T16:31:28.235+00:002011-11-02T16:31:28.235+00:00Fascinating to read about such a completely forgot...Fascinating to read about such a completely forgotten and unique item. I must admit envy of such a rare--to me at least--bibliographic discovery.<br /><br />Having briefly researched the Paisley publisher, Alexander Gardner, I remembered a much later work by a weaver published by them:<br /><br />Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver by William Thom of Inverury, edited, with a biographical sketch, by W. Skinner, 1880.ralph mackayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15758060032139481984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-52805713404291737032011-11-01T14:33:12.504+00:002011-11-01T14:33:12.504+00:00Google Books gives a little more: I tried
"J...Google Books gives a little more: I tried <br />"John Lennon" weavers Preston<br />and turned up a few traces of Lennon's campaigning work in transcripts and histories. Seems he was indeed a weaver himself. Of course you have to filter out a lot of refs to the great Beatle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-57041479671885684132011-11-01T07:38:51.609+00:002011-11-01T07:38:51.609+00:00Fascinating Nigel many thanks.
There are actuall...Fascinating Nigel many thanks.<br /><br /><br />There are actually a lot of rather good poets sharing Lennon's artisanal background. Tom Leonard compiled an excellent anthology of working -class poets (including one or two well-kent names such as John Davidson) associated with Renfrew -<br /><br />http://www.tomleonard.co.uk/main-publications/radical-renfrew.html<br /><br />A sample from the London0born Marion Bernstein -<br /><br />HUMAN RIGHTS <br /><br />Man holds so exquisitively tight <br />To everything he deems his right; <br />If woman wants a share, to fight <br />She has, and strive with all her might. <br /><br />But we are nothing like so jealous <br />As any of you surly fellows; <br />Give us our rights and we'll not care <br />To cheat our brothers of their share. <br /><br />Above such selfish man-like fright, <br />We'd give fair play, let come what might, <br />To he or she folk, black or white, <br />And haste the reign of Human Right. <br /><br />Interesting that Lennon's book was printed at Preston. The only other book I can think of off-hand printed at Preston is a fictional one, Enoch Soames' Fungoids. Must be many others of course.Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.com