Thomas Wilson (poet)

Thomas Wilson (1773–1858) was a Tyneside poet, from Low Fell in Gateshead. His most famous work, an example of Tyneside Dialect Literature, is The Pitman's Pay, originally published between 1826 and 1830.^[1]

Works

• The Pitman's Pay
• Stanzas on the Intended New Line of Road from Potticar-Lane to Leyburn-Hole
• The Oiling of Dicky's Wig
• The Opening of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
• The Captain's and the Quayside
• A Keelman's Tribute to a Friend
• A Dirge on the Death of Coaly
• Joyce's Patent Stove
• The Humble Petition of the Sand Banks in the Tyne
• The Alderman's Lament
• The Pea-jacket
• The Movement
• A Glance at Polly Technic
• Lines on John Smith
• The Author's Arm-chair
• The Author's Favourite Dog, Pincher
• On Parting with a Favourite Mare
• A Character
• Charley the Newsmonger
• On Seeing a Mouse Run Across the Road in January
• Petition of an Apple-tree
• Answer to the Foregoing
• The Tippling Dominie
• The Washing-day
• Woman
• David Profit
• Carter's Well
• The Industrious and Peaceable Pair
• The Village-howdy
• The Happy Home

References

External links

• http://www.asaplive.com/archive/browse_by_collection.asp FARNE - Folk Archive Resource North East
• http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/durhamdialect/wilson1.html Online version of The Pitman's Pay