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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 ...

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John Clare, Politics and Poetry 2003, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9780333966174

2003 edition

Hardcover

John Clare, Politics and Poetry 2003, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9781349428335

2003 edition

Trade paperback