John Clare, Politics and Poetry

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
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/16/2003
Pages: 221
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780333966174

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

About the Author
ALAN D. VARDY is an Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.