John Clare, Politics and Poetry
- ISBN-10
- 0333966171
- ISBN-13
- 9780333966174
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 221
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-10-16
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- 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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