Well, yes, it can always be worse. One can be locked into the peasantry by a
rigid class structure, one can be about to lose one's head. But those don't
speak to the modern (or post-modern) writer's situation as Stephen raised
it. Those precedents don't really track modern experience, though Clare's
persistence is one sort of example despite it being a kind of madness.
jd
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Robin Hamilton <
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> This is a very fine thread. I'd just give a gentle reminder that John
>> Clare had a worse situation than any of us ( even than Pound in St
>> Margarets)
>>
>> Joseph Bircumshaw
>>
>
> ... and let's not forget Chidiock Tichbourne. Would he count as the
> first Lyrical Terrorist?
>
> R.
>
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