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John Birtwhistle Quotes

born 1946 England

John Birtwhistle (born 1946) is an English poet and librettist.

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Poets

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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.

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)

The essay was impelled by Clare's anxiety that his poems were slipping out of fashion.

Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)

Clare's essay was itself an attempt at popularity through essayistic journalism.

Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)

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