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Why would a writer seek to be homeless? For George Orwell, it was "a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs―and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety." Authors and poets have long traded the comforts of home for the hardships of the road and produced great work as a result.

John Clare is remembered as the Northampton peasant poet, a productive walker who wrote more than 3,500 poems over the course of a turbulent life. Claire was deeply frustrated by the enclosures of common land gathering momentum during his time, which disrupted his freedom to roam the countryside that defined his youth and informed much of his work. By 1541, the poet had spent five years at Dr Matthew Allen's private asylum in Epping Forest. On 20 July, he walked out of the trees and tramped home to Northborough―more than 80 miles in four days―looking for his deceased childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce.

Immediately after his torturous expedition, Clare wrote the extraordinary Recollections of Journey from Essex, a fevered prose account of the trek, which, he explains, involved sleeping on the stone floor of a porch and eating handfuls of grass―which tasted "something like bread"―from the roadside. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Clare's experience of poverty was, for the most part, authentic. Unlike, for example, William Wordsworth, who―as Matthew Beaumont explains in his excellent book Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London―observed vagrancy with detached fascination and sympathy along the country road, Clare was born into hardship.

Thomas De Quincey, however, falls somewhere in between the vagrant and the observer. In his celebrated essay Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, he describes a "most painful affection of the stomach", which he attributes to the extreme bouts of hunger he experienced as a youth traversing north Wales. But De Quincey's attitudes towards the poor were complex reportedly a lifelong conservative, his depictions were sometimes compassionate, occasionally contemptuous, and more generally inconsistent―surprising, considering his own often insecure circumstances.

At the turn of the 20th century, American novelist Jack London, as a kind of precursor to Orwell, came to the English capital and immersed himself in the degenerations of the East End, from which experience he penned his unflinching portrayal of The People of the Abyss. He describes, in passionate journalistic prose, the terrible conditions in which the poor clung to life, sleeping in "the spike" (the workhouse), sipping "skilly" and dining on rank hospital leftovers. He also reflects on the absurd role of the police, who would forcibly prevent the homeless from sleeping at night, and goes some way to anatomising an appalling system: "Here then we have the construction of the Abyss. Throughout the whole industrial fabric a constant elimination is going on. The inefficient are weeded out and flung downward."

So what is the attraction of being down and out? For some, the prospect of real, hard-hitting subject matter has proved irresistible, while for others the route to the streets has been paved with anguish. Historically, those who have deliberately flung themselves downwards, as London might have put it, have tended to come from middle-class backgrounds and been almost exclusively male―a privileged position from which to explore the abyss, before rising again into comfort and security. For me writers who have felt compelled to draw attention to the poor's lot have produced the best work. Many more will no doubt follow suit there's something essential, vital, about understanding a little of what it is to be without a roof.

Thomas De Quincey

A reveals that the industrial system is pushing the poor into the abyss
B exhibits paradoxical feelings towards the poor
C fights against the enclosures of common land during his time
D holds that homelessness can relieve anxiety
E believes that the middle class have produced the best work about poor people

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B
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