The poems represent several distinct genres: heroic historical poems, like The Death of Robespierre, a tale of Nigel Bruce (brother of Robert the Bruce
), and a death-song for another Scots hero, Wallace
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ellen Johnston
There is considerable tension in EJ
's social vision, in part because she lacked literary models in which a feminist and proletarian stance might be articulated. Thus while some poems represent the factory as a...