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R. S. Attack
John Clare (1793-1864) was born at a time of great social upheaval, just months after the beheading of Louis XVI and the outbreak of war with France which was to last till the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. He also lived through the upheavals of the land enclosure movement and agricultural revolution which changed the face of the countryside and the way of life in rural England. His father was a farm worker who managed to pay for his son's schooling, though this was cut short as conditions worsened, but at least Clare had by then learnt to read and write so he could continue his own education, reading whatever books he could lay hi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85683-329-8
- EAN: 9780856833298
- Produktnummer: 18268742
- Verlag: Shepherd Walwyn Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 198 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 320 KB
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R S Attack worked as a legal secretary. Concerned about social injustice and unconvinced by the solutions of Left and Right, she enrolled for a degree in Economic History at Sussex University. There she was able to do the research which underpins this book. As a poet herself she found in John Clare a kindred spirit with a poet's perception of the beauty of nature and a clear vision of the injustice wrought by the enclosure movement.
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