Selected Poetry of John Clare
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
Selected Poetry of John Clare
By (Author) John Clare
Edited by Professor Jonathan Bate
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
7th October 2004
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.7
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 125mm, Height 197mm, Spine 20mm
275g
Description
John Clare was the great Romantic 'peasant poet' - the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, confined in his maturity to lunatic asylums.
Reviews
'Clare grabs hold of you - no, he doesn't grab hold of you, he is already there, talking to you before you've arrived on the scene, telling you about himself, about the things that are closest and dearest to him, and it would no more occur to him to do otherwise than it would occur to Whitman to stop singing you his song of himself.' John Ashbery; 'It is what Lawrence calls the poetry of the living present.' Seamus Heaney
Author Bio
Jonathan Bate is the author of the acclaimed biography John Clare (2003), The Genius of Shakespeare (1997), and The Song of the Earth (2000). He is Leverhulme Research Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick.
