John Birtwhistle

John Birtwhistle (born 1946) is an English poet and librettist.

Quotes

 * There are many thousands of poems about Death in the abstract. Philosophy about Death is a typical way of rendering it less real as an experience.
 * 'What can we learn from a dying poet' BMJ Supportive & Pallative Online Journal July 25 2014

Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)'
'Occasion of the essay' Introduction to John Clare's on line Essay


 * Clare's essay was itself an attempt at popularity through essayistic journalism.


 * A minor essay, but an unduly neglected document of Clare's predicament in 1824, a crucial year in his life as a poet.


 * The essay was impelled by Clare's anxiety that his poems were slipping out of fashion.