John Clare, Politics and Poetry

by Alan Vardy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333966171
• ISBN13: 9780333966174
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"