Article: John Clare and eighteenth-century poetry: Pomfret, Cunningham, Bloomfield.(poets John Pomfret, John Cunningham, and Robert Bloomfield)(Critical Essay)

In the study of "laboring-class" poetry there has been a move away from the Bloomian model of literary influence, towards models of intertextuality which more accurately reflect the social and intellectual conditions in which these writers worked, and their often influence-hungry stance. (1) This general movement has begun to permeate John Clare studies, where the cherished view of Clare as an isolated, essentially misanthropic figure has begun to melt away. Influenced by more sociable models of Romantic-period literary production, recent studies have discovered a range of literary communities--real and imagined--arrayed round Clare and his poetry. To give two examples, ...

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