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John Clare, Politics and Poetry

John Clare, Politics and Poetry

Vardy, A.

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1349428337
ISBN13: 9781349428335
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Jan 1 2003
Pages: 221
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
John 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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