John Clare, Politics and Poetry
Author | : A. Vardy |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2003-10-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 0333966171 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780333966174 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Download or read book John Clare, Politics and Poetry written by A. Vardy and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 112 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.