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Unless otherwise stated, all quotations from Clare’s poetry in these essays will be taken from the following edition, with volume and page numbers given in the text. The edition presents a ‘primitive’text and gives detailed information regarding textual variants and the publication history of each poem. Volumes will be abbreviated as follows