John Clare, Politics and Poetry

John Clare, Politics and Poetry
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9780230505810
ISBN-13 : 0230505813
Rating : 4/5 (813 Downloads)

Book Synopsis John Clare, Politics and Poetry by : A. Vardy

Download or read book John Clare, Politics and Poetry written by A. Vardy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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