John Clare
In Our Time: Culture
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The English Burns
Robert burns had been enormously successful a generation earlier in scotland, so publishers and in london were, in a way, on the lookout for the english burns. Ng, the singing ploughman, xactof the bor, that is what they thought clare could be. So 18 20, first book published. He's brought to london, he has his portrait painted, and it's a great success. The idea of writing about nature was very much in the as much asthe the rural peasant genius, as they're like, calling them burns. A few years earlier, there was a poet, also from the from the east anglian district, a a
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