This book presents Clare's poetry exactly as he wrote it, and includes selections from his `mad' poems as well as his earlier descriptions of birds, animals and village life.
This authoritative edition brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters and illustrates all aspects of his talent.
Largely based on the transcripts made by William Knight and other amanuenses at Northampton , it emends the Knight punctuation in an attempt to get closer to Clare's lost manuscripts . The Early Poems of John Clare 1804–1822 , Volumes i ...
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 ...
I tell of brooks , of blossoms , birds and bowers , Of April , May , of June , and July - flowers ; I tell of May - poles , hock - carts , wassails , wakes , Of bridegrooms , brides , and of their bridal cakes ; I tell of groves ...
"In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...
His recovery was credited to the intervention of Francis Willis , the doctor who ran a private asylum in his house near Stamford , where Clare would make a social call thirty years later . Willis used harsh methods and it is doubtful ...
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.
Clare's Lyric examines John Clare's lyric poems and their impact on the work of three twentieth-century poets—Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery.
Clare may perhaps have intended to enfold into the poem a little homage to Hannah Bloomfield, whose charming letter to him of 10 March 1825 thanking ... A spring, o'erhung with many a flower, The grey sand dancing in its bed, Embank'd ...
John Clare: The CriticalHeritage John Clare's library, held at Northampton Central Library Egerton Manuscript of Letters to Clare The Early Poems of John Clare, 1804–1822 The Letters of John Clare The Later Poems of John Clare, ...