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"A minor essay, but an unduly neglected document of Clares predicament in 1824, a crucial year in his life as a poet."
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John Birtwhistle is an English poet published by Carcanet Press. His libretto for David Blake’s opera The Plumber’s Gift (1989) was staged by English National Opera at the London Coliseum and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
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"The essay was impelled by Clares anxiety that his poems were slipping out of fashion."
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"There are many thousands of poems about Death in the abstract. Philosophy about Death is a typical way of rendering it less real as an experience."
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"Clares essay was itself an attempt at popularity through essayistic journalism."
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