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John Clare

In Our Time: Culture

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Into the Cowslip Bell Peeps

Clarkson writes these beautifully innocent poems of nature. He also adopts the voices of poets like byron and burns to give himself a sense of identity that's confident. But there's also an overriding sense in some poems, especially the byronic ones of 18 forty, one, of utter despair with both the literary markets place and with reliance on women and relationships young men.

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