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John Clare (1793-1864), a visionary poetry whoa lso worked as an agricultural laborer, was deeply affected by the Enclosure Movement, a series of Acts of Parliament which consolidated the old strip-farming systems into larger units and removed the people's rights to common land.…
Providing a firsthand account of the land enclosure movement of the 19th century from a major English poet, this extensively researched study gives modern readers an appreciation of the divisive effects of such policies. Structured chronologically, this exploration of John Clare…