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.
