Abstract

Preface Notes on contributors Introduction: relocating John Clare Hugh Haughton and Adam Phillips Clare and the critics Mark Storey Progress and rhyme: 'The Nightingale's Nest' and Romantic poetry Hugh Haughton John Clare: the trespasser John Goodridge and Kelsey Thornton John Clare: precursor? Seamus Heaney Clare's politics John Lucas The exposure of John Clare Adam Phillips 'The Riddle Nature Could Not Prove': hidden landscapes in Clare's poetry Nicholas Birns Beyond the visionary company: John Clare's resistance to Romanticism James McKusick 'A Love for Every Simple Weed': Clare, botany and the poetic language of lost Eden Douglas Chambers All madness for writing: John Clare and the asylum Roy Porter Clare and 'the dark system' Marilyn Gaull Selected further reading Index.

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