{"product_id":"john-hewitt-rhyming-weavers-2024-paperback","title":"Rhyming Weavers [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the nineteenth century there was a remarkable flowering of peasant verse in the Ulster counties of Antrim and Down. Witty, irreverent and deeply egalitarian, these poems were written by working people - hand-loom weavers, small farmers and country schoolmasters - for people much like themselves. The poets wrote in the 'lively tongue' of the Ulster-Scots vernacular and drew their themes from the landscape and life of the community at a time when the making of flax into linen played a basic part in the economic and social pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Hewitt's 'Rhyming Weavers' is both a study and a celebration of the lives and work of these country poets. His extended introduction provides an accessible account of the context in which the poets wrote and is complemented by a select anthology that includes poems by well-known local bards such as David Herbison, James Orr and Samuel Thomson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1974, Hewitt's anthology was an act of recovery, an excavation of a vibrant aspect of Ulster's literary history. Reissued again, fifty years later and with a new foreword by Frank Ferguson, 'Rhyming Weavers' remains a seminal work, making an important contribution to Ulster-Scots writing and to debates about language and identity in these islands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hewitt, John \u0026 Ferguson, Frank","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49961559327059,"sku":"9781780733944","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hewitt-john-ferguson-frank-john-hewitt-rhyming-weavers-2024-paperback-9781780733944-60455437042003.jpg?v=1734498847","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/john-hewitt-rhyming-weavers-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}