John Clare and Community
ISBN: 9780521887021 | 052188702X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 2/25/2013
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John Goodridge examines some of the ways in which John Clare perceived and represented two communities, that of his native village, whose culture, ecology and natural environment it was his life's principal work to record, and the community of poets who inspired him.
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 ... MORE
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 ... MORE
| Introduction: Clare and community | |
| Brother Bards and Fellow Labourers | |
| Great expectations: Clare, Chatterton and becoming a poet | |
| 'Three cheers for mute ingloriousness!': Clare and eighteenth-century poetry | |
| Junkets and Clarissimus: the Clare-Keats dialogue | |
| 'Neighbour John': Bloomfield, companionship and isolation | |
| Representing Rural Life | |
| Enclosure and the... MORE | |
| The bird's nest poems, protection and violation | |
| Festive ritual and folk narrative | |
| Storytellings: 'old womens memorys' | |
| Conclusion: community and solitude | |
| Works consulted | |
| Index | |
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