peasanthood was the condition of the agricultural laborer; it was skilled labor that made him free-neither peasant, peon, nor villein.
"Popular Law-making"
Frederic Jesup Stimson
Carlyle cared little for Wordsworth's poetry, had a real respect for the antique greatness of his devotion to Poverty and peasanthood, recognised his strong intellectual powers and strong character, but thought him rather dull, bad-tempered, unproductive, and almost wearisome, and found his divine reflections and unfathomabilities stinted, scanty, uncertain, palish.
"Studies in Literature"
John Morley