John Clare, Politics and Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333966174)

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.

Author: A. Vardy
ISBN-10: 0333966171
ISBN-13: 9780333966174
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2003
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.70w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2004 pg. 1884