Essays by leading scholars offering new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.
This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work.
This important collection of new critical essays provides a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary, and will be a landmark in the history of his reception.
A study of how we should read one of America's most important poets. Ben Hickman argues that we must attend to Ashbery's radical conception of reading if we are to understand the originality of his writing.
TO THE MEMORY OF BLOOMFIELD Sweet unassuming minstrel, not to thee The dazzling fashions of the day belong: Nature's wild pictures, field and cloud and tree And quiet brooks far distant from the throng In murmurs tender as the toiling ...
Society' in John Clare Society Newsletter, February 2016, pp. 5-7. The sonnets are in Middle Period, IV, pp. 298 and 309. Middle Period, II, pp. 163-84. Suggested by Bob Heyes, 'Little Hills of Cushioned Thyme', JCSJ, 12 (1993), 32-6.
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'A real world & doubting mind': A Critical Study of the Poetry of John Clare. Hull: Hull University Press, 1985. ———., ed. ... The Early Poems of John Clare, 1804–1822. Edited by Eric Robinson, David Powell and Margaret Grainger.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 JCSJ, 9 (1990), 31-43. See Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson, Andrew Wilson, Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus (London: Longman, 2001). The British National Corpus is a ...
The Shepherd's Calendar; With Village Stories, and Other Poems (London: John Taylor, 1827). The Rural Muse (London: Whittaker, 1835). The Early Poems of John Clare: 1804–1822, 2 vols, ed. by Eric Robinson and David Powell (Oxford: ...
For an ever-growing annotated bibliography of labouring-class poets before and beyond Clare's time, see John Goodridge et al. (eds), Database of British and Irish Labouring-Class ... NineteenthCentury English Labouring-Class Poets, vol.