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Clare's essay was itself an attempt at popularity through essayistic journalism.
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A minor essay, but an unduly neglected document of Clare's predicament in 1824, a crucial year in his life as a poet.
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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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The essay was impelled by Clare's anxiety that his poems were slipping out if fashion.
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John Birtwhistle
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Born:
June 28, 1946
(age 78)
Bio:
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.
Known for:
A selection of poems (1989)
Eventualities (2013)
Tidal Models (1980)
Our worst suspicions (1985)
Oxford Handbook of General Practice (2002)
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