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Trouble involving Republican poet’s fellowship (11)

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I believe the answer is:

brotherhood

'fellowship' is the definition.
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'trouble involving republican poet's' is the wordplay.
'trouble' becomes 'bother' (synonyms).
'involving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'republican' becomes 'R' (abbreviation).
'poet' becomes 'hood' (Thomas Hood, b799-b8he).
'bother' enclosing 'r' is 'brother'.
'brother'+'hood'='BROTHERHOOD'

(Other definitions for brotherhood that I've seen before include "association" , "Fraternity" , "Feeling of close kinship" , "union" , "Community" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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