@article{discovery10132361,
            note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
           pages = {59--77},
           title = {John Taylor Retailored},
            year = {2022},
          number = {308},
         journal = {The Review of English Studies},
          volume = {73},
           month = {February},
       publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)},
          author = {Ossa-Richardson, A},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab047},
        abstract = {The works of John Taylor the Water Poet (1578-1653) have in recent years been reappraised by scholars of early modern material culture for their expression of a working-class voice, for their inventive manipulation of the print market, and above all for their embodiment, in contrast to dominant Renaissance paradigms of literary worth, of a poetics of physical labour. In this article I revisit the figure of the tailor in Taylor's defences of his own literary practice, showing that he cleaved to a simplistic distinction between originality and theft, identifying tailoring with the latter. I then examine three examples of his reworkings of previous poems-a micro-drama about the Thirty Years War, an anti-Papist dialogue, and an extended piece of nonsense verse-in an attempt to demonstrate that, despite Taylor's critical assertions, they can after all best be thought of retailorings, neither properly original nor stolen. This category, however, is a modern one, and I conclude that we have no choice but to appreciate Taylor's poems, or those of any other early modern writer, on our own terms.}
}