Author: John ClarePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415942348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
John Clare by Himself
Author: John ClarePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415942348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
"I Am"
Author: John ClarePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528691
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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John Clare
Author: Simon KövesiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349591831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book investigates what it is that makes John Clare’s poetic vision so unique, and asks how we use Clare for contemporary ends. It explores much of the criticism that has appeared in response to his life and work, and asks hard questions about the modes and motivations of critics and editors. Clare is increasingly regarded as having been an environmentalist long before the word appeared; this book investigates whether this ‘green’ rush to place him as a radical proto-ecologist does any disservice to his complex positions in relation to social class, work, agriculture, poverty and women. This book attempts to unlock Clare’s own theorisations and practices of what we might now call an ‘ecological consciousness’, and works out how his ‘ecocentric’ mode might relate to that of other Romantic poets. Finally, this book asks how we might treat Clare as our contemporary while still being attentive to the peculiarities of his unique historical circumstances.
Asylum
Author: Lola HaskinsPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986744
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Asylum presents the kind of journey John Clare might have taken in 1841 if, when he escaped the madhouse, he'd been traveling in his head rather than on his feet. Lola Haskins starts out with as little sense of direction as Clare had, and yet, after wandering all over the map, she too finally reaches her destination. The four sections in this book are where she rests for the night. The first looks tenderly at the cycle of human life. The second renders the world around her as if she were painting it. By the third, having lost her way, she turns to the supernatural and in the process is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. The book ends as she finds it again and arrives in her dear north-west England, having learned from John Clare that she “can be homeless at home and half-gratified to find I can be happy anywhere.”
The Rural Muse
Author: John ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
John Clare
Author: Jonathan BatePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374179908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
John Clare (1793-1864) was the greatest labor-class poet that England ever produced. Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work, his birth in poverty, his work as a laborer, his promise as a writer, then his moment of fame in the company of John Keats and the toast of literary London.
New Essays on John Clare
Author: Simon KövesiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316351955
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
John Clare (1793–1864) has long been recognized as one of England's foremost poets of nature, landscape and rural life. Scholars and general readers alike regard his tremendous creative output as a testament to a probing and powerful intellect. Clare was that rare amalgam ‒ a poet who wrote from a working-class, impoverished background, who was steeped in folk and ballad culture, and who yet, against all social expectations and prejudices, read and wrote himself into a grand literary tradition. All the while he maintained a determined sense of his own commitments to the poor, to natural history and to the local. Through the diverse approaches of ten scholars, this collection shows how Clare's many angles of critical vision illuminate current understandings of environmental ethics, aesthetics, Romantic and Victorian literary history, and the nature of work.
The Shepherd's Calendar
Author: John ClarePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Major Works
Author: John KeatsThe Works of John Clare
Author: John ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
John Clare is one of the foremost "peasant poets" of the English language. His fascination with the countryside, with nature and with the seasons and their changing moods marks a departure from the formal pastoral verse of the 18th century.