The long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet" John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced.
THE WINTERS COME 1 Sweet chesnuts brown, like soleing leather turn, The larch trees, like the colour of the sun, That paled sky in the Autumn seem'd to burn. What a strange scene before us now does run, Red, brown, and yellow, ...
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 ...
And saw him give to tyrant boys a fee To buy the captive sparrows liberty Each sundays leisure brought the woods their guest And wildest spot which suited him the best As bushy greens and valleys left untilld Were weedy brooks went ...
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past whom they particularly admire.
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John Clare: A Poet for all Seasons is a superb anthology combining the poems of John Clare, the nineteenth century poetic commemorator of the English countryside and rural life - the so-called 'Northamptonshire Peasant Poet'.
John Clare: The Poet and the Place
John Clare was reputedly a solitary, shy man, at one with nature and the world. Although these authors have both published books which indicate otherwise, in this volume they focus on Clare as a transgressive figure.
These volumes represent the third and fourth of five volumes devoted to Clare's 'middle period', between 1822 and 1837, arguably the years of his finest creativity.
These volumes represent the third and fourth of five volumes devoted to Clare's 'middle period', between 1822 and 1837, arguably the years of his finest creativity.
These volumes represent the third and fourth of five volumes devoted to Clare's "middle period," between 1822 and 1837, arguably the years of his finest creativity.
‘What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world’ Seamus Heaney John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, ...
BH John Clare By Himself (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996), Eric Robinson and David Powell (eds.) ... EG Egerton Manuscripts, Letters Addressed to John Clare, British Library, 6 vols, 2245–50 EP The Early Poems of John Clare 1804–1822 ...
This book situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods.
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.
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"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...