John Clare. A Biography

Bate, Jonathan

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Price: £9.99 College members' price: £8.99 Published: Jun 2004 Format: paperback Number of pages: 300 ISBN: 9780330371124

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  Bate states that today Clare would have been put on “Prozac and lithium” and wonders if this would have “saved him from the asylum at the risk of killing his poetic muse”. This raises interesting ethical questions: Does psychiatric treatment serve to quench creativity? Does this matter if it also relieves mental suffering? Allan Beveridge read more...