John Clare, Politics and Poetry

John Clare, Politics and Poetry
ISBN-10
0230505813
ISBN-13
9780230505810
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
221
Language
English
Published
2003-10-16
Publisher
Springer
Author
A. Vardy

Description

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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