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“Self Identity is one of the finest principles in everybodys life,”
John Clare observed, differing from John Keats, a contemporary whom
Clare admired and who claimed, contrarily, “the poet has ... no
identity”. Identity remained a vexed and central issue for Clare
right to the end of his life, as two late famous lyrics testify,
both entitled “I Am”. “I am,” declares the first line of one, “yet
what I am, none cares or knows”; the …
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