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This chapter attends to Clare’s handling of personal experience. Taking in poems and prose from across his career, including the early songs and ballads, the Byron imitation Child Harold, and the late asylum poems ‘A Vision’ and ‘I Am’, the chapter grapples with the impersonal textures of Clare’s most personal writing. It shows how Clare makes the seemingly conventional, in Rupert Brooke’s words, ‘oddly real and his own’.
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Hodgson, A. (2019). Clare II: ‘Oddly Real and His Own’. In: The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30971-8_4
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