Festive Wreath

By Various · Running time 01:24:28 · Anthologies

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About this book

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. Since 1840, local poets had been gathering at the Sun Inn 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 and a Manchester Guardian journalist in attendance that

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