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Clare and the ghost of Keats.

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20030622
Author:Chirico, Paul

John Clare was fascinated by both literary success and by individual authors, notably John Keats and Robert Bloomfield, whom he considered unjustly neglected. He values Keats's poems for their abstract beauties, cherishes their choice phrases and linguistic turns; but, in letters to their mutual publisher, John Taylor, he describes Keats in obscure phrases which, in his autobiography and correspondence of 1821, he reapplies to his own life. My account of the mediated, self-reflexive and misrepresented relationship between the poets, and the importance of Keats in Clare's ...

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