Clare's Lyric: John Clare and Three Modern Poets

Clare's Lyric: John Clare and Three Modern Poets
ISBN-10
0199688028
ISBN-13
9780199688029
Category
History
Pages
199
Language
English
Published
2014-04
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Stephanie Kuduk Weiner

Description

This book examines poems written by four writers whose poems accurately and faithfully represent the real world. These writers-John Clare, an early nineteenth-century English poet and naturalist, and three later poets who looked to him at pivotal moments in their own careers: Arthur Symons, an avant garde poet and theorist of fin-de-siäle decadence; Edmund Blunden, a World War I poet and memoirist; and John Ashbery, the foremost poet of contemporaryAmerican letters--depict the goings on of everyday life, especially the rhythms of nature. This theoretically and historically informed study is written in a lively style and is accessible to non-specialistreaders. Weiner's attentive close readings bring the poems she examines to life by revealing precisely how they captured a vital, arresting, and complex world. Clare's Lyric refines our understanding of realism in literature, the aesthetic of Romanticism, and the genre of lyric, and it makes a compelling case for the ongoing importance of poems about the natural world.

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