John Clare, Politics and PoetryJohn Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of 'poor John Clare', the helpless victim of personal and professional circumstance. Clare's career has been presented as a disaster of editorial heavy-handedness, condescension, a poor market, and conservative patronage. Yet Clare was not a passive victim. This study explores the sources of the 'poor Clare' tradition, and recovers Clare's agency, revealing a writer fully engaged in his own professional life and in the social and political questions of the day. |
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| Title | John Clare, Politics and Poetry |
| Author | A. Vardy |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | John Clare Society, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0333966171, 9780333966174 |
| Length | 221 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century Literary Criticism / Modern / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Literary Criticism / Renaissance |
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