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• Title: John Clare's Career, "Keats's Publisher," and the Early Nineteenth-Century English Book Trade (Critical Essay)
• Author : Studies in Romanticism
• Release Date : January 22, 2006
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 233 KB

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I. Interconnections THE RECENT COMPLETION OF THE NINE-VOLUME OXFORD ENGLISH TEXTS edition of Clare s poetry provides the most richly detailed portrait possible of Clare the solitary writer-at-work, producing his poems over six decades. The Oxford edition rejects the published poems in favor of their manuscript versions, ignoring the emendations that Clare solicited from his editor, John Taylor, and the editorial interventions of others. (1) Shifting attention away from skirmishes over editing the poems to Clare's and Taylor's financial and professional interdependence in the literary marketplace, this essay pursues instead the Clare who appeared in print--the poet his contemporaries knew, and to whom they responded. Our focus, then, is the public poet represented in the four collections he published, in his periodical writings, and in the critical reviews that re-presented his poems to a buying readership. Because print was the public medium of Clare's private ambitions, it remains the key to understanding the contemporary reception of the poet and his poems. Unlike Clare in composition, Clare in print is not a solitary figure; the presentation of his poems should be understood principally as a series of collaborative efforts by the poet and his publishers--most importantly, Taylor and his business partner, James Hessey.

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