“…26 Stephen Duck 'the Thresher Poet' secured Caroline's patronage (during the same years that Barber was seeking it), setting, as Rizzo discovers, rather than following a pattern for the relationship between patron and 'natural' (i.e., unschooled and labouring-class) poet of the eighteenth century. In this pattern, the poet is discovered by a local patron or group of patrons and is transferred upwards even unto the court.…”