Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Great Regulars: John Clare was in fact at this time a patient

in a private mental asylum. This was his first incarceration for mental illness, which would set the pattern for the rest of his life He would spend essentially the rest of his life in mental asylums. Tennyson had considered having himself become a patient of the asylum, but decided against it and just moved into a house nearby.

from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Adam Foulds on The Quickening Maze

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