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John Clare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

John Clare

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-09-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

New Essays on John Clare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

New Essays on John Clare

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

The Antiquary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Antiquary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1890
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1182

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  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1874
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 668

The Nation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1888
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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John Clare's Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

John Clare's Religion

Addressing a neglected aspect of John Clare's history, Sarah Houghton-Walker explores Clare's poetry within the framework of his faith and the religious context in which he lived. While Clare expressed affection for the Established Church and other denominations on various occasions, Houghton-Walker brings together a vast array of evidence to show that any exploration of Clare's religious faith must go beyond pulpit and chapel. Phenomena that Clare himself defines as elements of faith include ghosts, witches, and literature, as well as concepts such as selfhood, Eden, eternity, childhood, and evil. Together with more traditional religious expressions, these apparently disparate features of C...

Publications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 670

Publications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1889
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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John Clare's Romanticism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

John Clare's Romanticism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period – in particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare’s original contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how he explores a wide range of concerns and preoccupations which are central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics, including ‘fancy’, the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, ‘poesy’, and a love lyric marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere expression. At the heart of this book is the claim that the hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes, and abstract qualities of Clare’s lyric poetry situate him firmly within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to one of the most fascinating eras of English literature.

The Green Studies Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

The Green Studies Reader

Laurence Coupe brings together a collection of extracts from a wide range of both historical and contemporary ecocritical texts.

John Clare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 692

John Clare

‘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, Wordsworth or Shelley – and a life to match. The ‘poet’s poet’, he has a place in the national pantheon and, more tangibly, a plaque in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner, unveiled in 1989. Here at last is Clare’s full story, from his birth in poverty and employment as an agricultural labourer, via his burgeoning promise as a writer – cultivated under the gaze of rival patrons – and moment of fame, in the company of John Keats, as the toast of literary London, to his final decline into mental illness and the last years of his life, confined in asylums. Clare’s ringing voice – quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous – emerges through extracts from his letters, journals, autobiographical writings and poems, as Jonathan Bate brings this complex man, his revered work and his ribald world, vividly to life.