Songs For The Millions, And Other Poems

Songs for the Millions, and other poems

by Benjamin Stott

Songs for the Millions is a collection of seventeen short poems by Benjamin Stott, a Manchester-born bookbinder and active trade unionist and Chartist. The poems explore themes of poverty, famine, injustice, and the brutality of the police and their spies. Stott also writes about solidarity and resistance, and some of his most powerful words are reserved for the clergy who urged the working masses to wait patiently in poverty for their reward in the next world. The collection includes a long ode to the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity, which remains the largest fraternal organization of its kind in the United Kingdom.

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