The Thresher's Labour
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The Thresher's Labour
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"The Thresher's Labour" is one of three poems written by Stephen Duck in 1730. It describes Duck's struggles as an agricultural labourer, and the situation of the early eighteenth-century British working class in general. H. Gustav Klaus said it was the most accurate description of working life in verse, and praised Duck's recognition that work deserved a literary treatment. "The Thresher's Labour" became the voice, in a sense, for the rural labourers who were oppressed. It also became a model f
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2014-12-10T20:59:58Z
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2024-09-09T11:16:17Z
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