Foulds, Adam  , 1974- <br/><br/>
The quickening maze 
/ Adam Foulds 
 - New York  : Penguin Books  , 2010. 
 - 259 p.  ; 21 cm 
<br/><br/> Centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Private Asylum - an institution run on reformist principles which would later become known as occupational therapy. At the same time another poet, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and becomes entangled in the life and catastrophic schemes of the asylum's owner, the peculiar, charismatic Dr Matthew Allen. For John Clare, a man who had grown up steeped in the freedoms and exhilarations of nature, who thought 'the edge of the world was a day's walk away', a locked door is a kind of death. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143117797 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009040218 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Clare, John (, 1793-1864) <br/>Tennyson, Alfred , Baron  , 1809-1892 ----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poets, English---19th century----Fiction<br/>Psychiatric hospital patients----Fiction<br/>Mentally ill----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>London (England)----Social conditions----19th century----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6106.O95  / Q53 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC FOU