Song, Kiho. “The Poetic Dilemmas and Strategies in Yearsley’s Early Poems.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 41.1 (2015): 105-124. The well-publicized dispute between Ann Yearsley and her one-time patron Hannah More provides a valuable insight into what a working-class poet had to go through to be accepted by the middle-class reading public in the eighteenth century. Several poems written during the period when Yearsley was patronized by, and soon in conflict with More, reveal some of the dilemmas that Yearsley--or possibly other working-class poets--faced, particularly, the pressure to conform to the middle-class culture and literary conventions. Yearsley’s poems reveal her ambivalent attitudes towards them; she seems to willingly conform to the middle-class culture, however, at the same time, she intentionally undermines the expectations of the middle-class readers by redefining such key concepts as ignorance, education, and sensibility. (Hannam University)