[New-Poetry] Grammatical

[JforJames at aol.com]

[John]Clare felt robbed of his language and complained that ‘grammar in  
learning is like Tyranny in government’. His publisher, John Taylor, urged him  to 
get rid of oral ‘provincialisms’ in his poetry—for example to substitute  ‘
gush’d’ for ‘gulsh’d’ or drop ‘himsen’. Taylor edited, reshaped and 
sometimes  rewrote Clare’s unpunctuated poems so that Clare felt robbed of his ties 
to the  land and to his native speech-community.  
--Tom  Paulin, “Tracking The Wing Dog”
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