Clare's Poetic Binomials.
John Clare's confessed preference for the 'vulgar' names of flowers and his apparent dismissal of the sexual system as 'darkness visible' seems to keeps the taint of Linnaean influence at a distance. His enumeration of flowers in 'The Wild Flower Nosgay', however, looks very much like two eighteenth...
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