Catalogue of the John Clare Collection in the Northampton Public Library
Author : David Powell
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Manuscripts, English
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Author : David Powell
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Manuscripts, English
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Author : Simon Kövesi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349591831
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.
Author : John Goodridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052188702X
John Clare (1793-1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world. Born into a rural labouring family, he felt connected to two communities: his native village and the Romantic and earlier poets who inspired him. The first part of this study of Clare and community shows how Clare absorbed and responded to his reading of a selection of poets including Chatterton, Bloomfield, Gray and Keats, revealing just how serious the process of self-education was to his development. The second part shows how he combined this reading with the oral folk-culture he was steeped in, to create an unrivalled poetic record of a rural culture during the period of enclosure, and the painful transition to the modern world. In his lifelong engagement with rural and literary life, Clare understood the limitations as well as the strengths in communities, the pleasures as well as the horrors of isolation.
Author : Northampton Public Library. John Clare Collection
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Tim Chilcott
Publisher : John Clare Society
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
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ISBN : 9780950921846
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466895454
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. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive literary biography. Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work: his birth in poverty, his work as an agricultural labourer, his burgeoning promise as a writer--cultivated under the gaze of rival patrons--then his moment of fame in the company of John Keats and the toast of literary London, and finally his decline into mental illness and his last years confined in asylums. Clare's ringing voice--quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous--emerges in generous quotation from his letters, journals, autobiographical writings, and his poems, as Jonathan Bate, the celebrated scholar of Shakespeare, brings the complex man, his beloved work, and his ribald world vividly to life.
Author : Geoffrey Summerfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 1994-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521445474
Critics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.
Author : Tim Chilcott
Publisher : John Clare Society
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
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ISBN : 9780950921815
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
Author : J.B. Smith
Publisher : John Clare Society
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 1990-07-13
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780950921860
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
Author : Clare Bucknell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110890534X
The most comprehensive coverage to date of Byron's place within the English poetic tradition, this landmark study boasts a cast of the most eminent individuals working in the field and will become invaluable to students and scholars of Byron, Romantic Literature and English literary history more generally.