"Labour's Utopia"

Title"Labour's Utopia"
Year for Search1857
Authors[Thornton], [William Thomas](1813-80)
Tertiary AuthorsPoet hidden / In the light of thought / Singing hymns unbidden, / Till the world is wrought / To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not”, A [pseud.]
Secondary TitleModern Manicheism, Labour's Utopia, and Other Poems
Pagination29-39
Date Published1857
PublisherJohn W. Parker and Son
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Poem depicting a eutopia of abundance and leisure in which people work at things they enjoy doing.

Additional Publishers

Published shortened under the author's name in his On Labour; Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues. Its Actual Present and Possible Future (London: Macmillan, 1869), 434-39. 2nd ed. with a few pages of text added (London: Macmillan, 1870), 460-68.

Pseudonym

"A Poet hidden / In the light of thought / Singing hymns unbidden, / Till the world is wrought / To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not" [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

ICN, L, LLL

Author Note

(1813-80)

Full Text

1857 [Thornton, William Thomas] (1813-80). “Labour’s Utopia.” In his Modern Manicheism, Labour’s Utopia, and Other Poems. By “A Poet hidden / In the light of thought / Singing hymns unbidden, / Till the world is wrought / To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not” [pseud.]. (London: John W. Parker and Son, 1857), 29-39. Published shortened under the author's name in his On Labour; Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues. Its Actual Present and Possible Future (London: Macmillan, 1869), 434-39. 2nd ed. with a few pages of text added (London: Macmillan, 1870), 460-68. ICN, L, LLL

Poem depicting a eutopia of abundance and leisure in which people work at things they enjoy doing.