John Birtwhistle Quotes

“A minor essay, but an unduly neglected document of Clare's predicament in 1824, a crucial year in his life as a poet.”

John Birtwhistle

Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)

“Clare's essay was itself an attempt at popularity through essayistic journalism.”

John Birtwhistle

Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)

“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.”

John Birtwhistle

'What can we learn from a dying poet' BMJ Supportive & Pallative Online Journal July 25 2014

“The essay was impelled by Clare's anxiety that his poems were slipping out if fashion.”

John Birtwhistle

Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)