[1821] - Clare, The Village Minstrel published (sells 800 copies in three months)

Useful Links and Further Reading

• The John Clare Society, ‘The Village Minstrel and Other Poems’,
  http://www.johnclare.info/poems/vmcontents.html
• Bridget Keegan, ‘Broadsides, Ballads and Books: The Landscape of Cultural Literacy in “The Village Minstrel”’, John Clare Society Journal, 15 (1996), 11–19,
  http://www.johnclare.info/keegan.html
• P. M. S. Dawson, ‘John Clare’s Village Job: The Making of The Village Minstrel’, Romanticism, 12.3 (2006), 236–71,
  http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/romanticism/v012/12.3dawson.html
• William D. Brewer, ‘Clare’s Struggle for Poetic Identity in The Village Minstrel’, John Clare Society Journal, 13 (1994), 73–80