New Essays on John Clare


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Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.




The Letters of John Clare


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The letters, to a large circle of correspondents, cover his whole writing life and provide a remarkable portrait of the poet.







The Later Poems of John Clare


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John Clare and the Imagination of the Reader


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This broad and original study of the full range of John Clare's work is the first to take seriously his repeated appeals to the judgement of future readers. A series of close readings reveals Clare's sophisticated poetics: his covert quotations, his careful analysis of the history, and his fascination with literary success and posthumous fame.




John Clare, Selected Letters


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More than a century after his death, John Clare is being recognized as a poet of importance and stature. His letters, drawn from the whole of his adult life until a few years before his death, provide a fascinating and frequently moving insight into his work and thoughts, charting his progress from youthful enthusiasm to poignant decline.