Bamford, Samuel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...weaver, poet, and social reformer. Always sympathetic toward the working class, he was jailed in 1819 for his part in the Peterloo massacre. His dialect verses were popular among the Lancashire workers. Besides his poetry, Bamford is noted for Passages...