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This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the public…
'This fine collection is an important contribution to Romanticism studies which will continue to be valued and read. Its essays are often fresh, original, and skillfully inserted into diverse contemporary critical conversations. The book reflects and advances recent developments…
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…