Webb John
Title
Webb John
Creator
‘Kenrick Prescott’
Coverage
Haverhill, Suffolk
First Name
John
Last Name
Webb
Bibliography
NCSTC, NLS, BL, Bod, Cranbrook, 243
Biographical Text
includes subscription list with numerous local residents, ‘poems by a journeyman weaver, born in the vale of obscurity...The poem is in the form of a narrative saga, with numerous direct or oblique References to local people, places, and events. As poetry it probably has little merit: as an illustration of working-class emancipation it may have rather more’ (John Drury Rare Books catalogue 104, 2000-2001, item 149)
Occupation
weaver
Publications
Mildenhall (1771), Poems (1772), Haverhill, a Descriptive Poem and Other Poems (London: printed for the author and sold by J. Nunn, 1810), xxiv, 119 [see additional note]
Subscribers
Yes, local residents
- Date Added
- September 21, 2012
- Collection
- Labour Class Poets
- Item Type
- Person
- Tags
- Male
- Citation
- ‘Kenrick Prescott’, “Webb John,” Amanda's Test Omeka site, accessed April 27, 2024, https://amandafrench.omeka.net/items/show/348.