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Adventures in Poetry - Series 9 - I Am

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Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems. Peggy examines the poem's expression of feelings of dispossession engendered by the land grab of the agricultural enclosures of the early-19th century, and Clare's residency in a lunatic asylum at the time of writing it.