John Birtwhistle Quotes

John Birtwhistle is an English poet whose libretto for David Blake’s opera The Plumber’s Gift was staged by English National Opera at the London Coliseum and broadcast on Radio 3. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. June 1946
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Famous John Birtwhistle Quotes

“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.”

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'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)

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