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Book: Spectres of John Ball

Chapter: The Second Coming of John Ball: John Baxter, Robert Southey and Radicalism of the 1790s 

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42757

Blurb:

This chapter looks at how Ball’s reputation was reclaimed in the political radicalism of the 1790s by, for instance, John Baxter and a young Robert Southey in his initially unpublished but hugely influential dramatic poem, Wat Tyler.

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