Abstract

The Sterne-related versifications in Ewan Clark’s 1779 Miscellaneous Poems are here introduced, transcribed, and annotated for the first time. The introduction features the fullest modern biography of the minor Cumbrian poet, provides a detailed overview of his regional publishers and their reformist politics, and examines the volume’s subscription list, which includes several political grandees with radical Whig affiliations. This essay offers critical analysis about Clark’s Sternean adaptations, surveys his prominent sentimentalist aesthetic, and considers his political aims in relation to transatlantic news networks established by his publishers and rising tensions in parliament at the height of the American Revolution.

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