“The essay was impelled by Clare's anxiety that his poems were slipping out if fashion.”
John Birtwhistle (1946) English poet
Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)
“A minor essay, but an unduly neglected document of Clare's predicament in 1824, a crucial year in his life as a poet.”
Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)
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