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- ↑ Van-Hagen, Steve (Fall 2007). "Literary Technique, the Aestheticization of Laboring Experience, and Generic Experimentation in Stephen Duck's The Thresher's Labour". Criticism. 47 (4): 421–450. Retrieved 9 Dec 2014.
- ↑ McGonigal, Peter (1982). "Stephen Duck and the Text of The Thresher's Labour". The Library. 6 (IV): 288–296. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
- 1 2 Duck, Stephen (1738). Poems on Several Occasions. London: John Osborn; Samuel Birt; and James Hodges. pp. 7–20.
- ↑ Goodridge, John (1996). Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN 9780511584909.
- ↑ Kuiper, Edith. "Mary Collier". Political and Feminist Economics. Retrieved 9 Dec 2014.