I'm doing another presentation this week. This time it is still the form study: how/why Chartist poets called for social change in their epic poems. There are many intriguing findings in the textual analysis, among which there is a main point I'd like to write down here: by "conquering" the epic form, the oldest and the most prominent form in English Literary history, these working-class poets reclaimed the literary "canon" for their own class.