Adventures in Poetry: John Clare's "I Am"

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Adventures in Poetry: John Clare's "I Am"

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1chrisharpe
Dic 9, 2008, 10:00 am

A half-hour programme on one of my favourite poems, available for five more days:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/adventuresinpoetry/pip/9gva8/

Sunday 7 December 2008 16:30-17:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems.

3/4: I Am, by John Clare.

Peggy examines the poem's expression of feelings of dispossession engendered by the land grab of the agricultural enclosures of the early-19th century, and Clare's residency in a lunatic asylum at the time of writing it.