John Clare by Himself

John Clare by Himself PDF Author: John Clare
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415942348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

John Clare by Himself

John Clare by Himself PDF Author: John Clare
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415942348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"I Am"

Author: John Clare
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528691
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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John Clare in Context

John Clare in Context PDF Author: Geoffrey Summerfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521445474
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Critics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.

Major Works

Major Works PDF Author: John Clare
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192805638
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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After years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was generally not appreciated by his contemporaries, and his later mental instability further contributed to his loss of critical esteem. But the extraordinary range of his poetical gifts has restored him to the company of contemporaries like Lord Byron, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. This authoritative edition brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters and illustrates all aspects of his talent. It contains poems from all stages of his career, including love poetry and bird and nature poems. Written in his native Northamptonshire, Clare's work provides a fascinating reflection of rural society, often underscored by his own sense of isolation and despair. Clare's writings are presented with the minimum of editorial interference, and with a new introduction by the poet and scholar Tom Paulin.

Edge of the Orison

Edge of the Orison PDF Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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The story goes that in 1841, the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest and, heading towards his home in Northborough, covered eighty miles over three-and-a-half days. On foot and alone, he was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce a woman already three years dead In Iain Sinclair s hands, the bare facts of John Clare's story turn both strange and elliptical. Armed with curiosity and a sense that his work has from the first been haunted by Clare, Sinclair together with fellow diviners and other stragglers of the road sets out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness and to explore his own obsession with the poet. Keats, De Quincey, Blake, Pepys, Shelley, Joyce, Beckett, artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore along with Sinclair's wife Anna, who shares a connection with Clare are his fellow travellers on a journey that becomes an exercise in memory and erasure encompassing parents, grandparents and other ancestral ghosts. expression in Sinclair's deep-digging fiction of biography where memoir, history, travel, mystery and dreamstory combine in a magnificent eulogy to madness and to sanity along the borders of which may lie the poet's muse.

John Clare

John Clare PDF Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374179908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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John Clare (1793-1864) was the greatest labor-class poet that England ever produced. Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work, his birth in poverty, his work as a laborer, his promise as a writer, then his moment of fame in the company of John Keats and the toast of literary London.

The Poet's Wife

The Poet's Wife PDF Author: Judith Allnatt
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 055277443X
Category : Authors' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 403

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GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. It is 1841. Patty Clare is married to John Clare: peasant poet, genius and madman. Travelling home one day, Patty is shocked to find her husband sitting at the side of the road, having absconded from a lunatic asylum over 80 miles away. Delighted to see him and hopeful that his condition has improved, she is devastated when it becomes clear that John's mental health has deteriorated still further, and he now thinks himself married twice: to both Patty and his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, a woman who has been dead for more than three years. Patty still loves John deeply but he seems lost to her, obsessed with the idealised memory of a woman that she cannot possibly match. She finds herself driven to distraction, consumed with jealousy and struggling to cope with her large, unruly family. But with John descending further into his own delusions, hope seems to be fading that he will ever be restored to the man she married.

Major Works

Major Works PDF Author: John Keats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Reading with John Clare

Reading with John Clare PDF Author: Sara Guyer
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823265595
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Reading with John Clare argues that at the heart of contemporary biopolitical thinking is an insistent repression of poetry. By returning to the moment at which biopolitics is said to emerge simultaneously with romanticism, this project renews our understanding of the operations of contemporary politics and its relation to aesthetics across two centuries. Guyer focuses on a single, exemplary case: the poetry and autobiographical writing of the British poet John Clare (1793–1864). Reading Clare in combination with contemporary theories of biopolitics, Guyer reinterprets romanticism’s political legacies, specifically the belief that romanticism is a direct precursor to the violent nationalisms and redemptive environmentalisms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Guyer offers an alternative account of many of romanticism’s foundational concepts, like home, genius, creativity, and organicism. She shows that contemporary critical theories of biopolitics, despite repeatedly dismissing the aesthetic or poetic dimensions of power as a culpable ideology, emerge within the same rhetorical tradition as the romanticism they denounce. The book thus compels a rethinking of the biopolitical critique of poetry and an attendant reconsideration of romanticism and its concepts.

Classical Rome

Classical Rome PDF Author: John D. Clare
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780152005139
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the highly successful campaigns of the Roman republican army, the early struggles for control of the empire, and the rule of the Emperor Augustus to the challenges of governing the provinces, this book chronicles the establishment, administration and the collapse of the Roman Empire.