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As the last leader of the Chartist movement, Ernest Charles Jones (1819-69) is a significant historical figure, but he is just as well-known for his political verse. His prison-composed epic "The New World" lays claim to being the first poetic exploration of Marxist historical materialism, and his caustic short lyric The Song of the Low appears in most modern anthologies of Victorian poetry. Despite the prominence of Jones s verse in Labour history circles, and several major inclusions in critical discussions of working-class Victorian literature, this volume represents the first...