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John Clare's Romanticism BIBLIOGRAPHY ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF CLARE British Library General Reference Collection C.131.c.26/C.131. c.27/T.1902.(3.) John Rylands Library Edward L. Burney Book Collection (R144907) Special Collections SC531–2A/4A PRIMARY SOURCES Abrams, M.H., gen. ed., The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 2 vols, 6th edn `(New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1993). Addison, Joseph, The Spectator, nos. 409–411 (1712), 4 vols, III (London: Thomas Bosworth, 1854). Arnold, Matthew, Selected Prose, ed. by Peter J. Keating (London: Penguin, 1970, repr. 1987). Barbauld, Anna Letitia, Selected Poetry & Prose, ed. by William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002). Beattie, James, The Minstrel; Or, The Progress of Genius (1771–1775; Edinburgh: C. Dilly, 1797). Blake, William, Complete Poems and Prose, ed. by David V. Erdman, with notes by Harold Bloom (New York: Anchor Books, 1962, rev. ed. 1988). 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