By Himself

by Clare, John

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Title Statements

Full title :By Himself / by John Clare ; edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell.

Summary

John Clare was a defining voice of the rural poetic tradition. His story was first set down more than two centuries ago and has captured the imagination of the reading public ever since. it is told most vividly and poignantly in Clare's own words. This volume brings together, in definitive form, all Clare's important autobiographical writing. His Journalis set alongside his Sketches and 'Autobiographical Fragments' as well as his famous 'Journey out of Essex'. Maps of Clare's countryside are also included, as are his will and extracts from his asylum letters. Clare appears here as ploughboy, gardener's boy and militiaman; as lover and husband, acquaintance of Hazlitt, Lamb and Coleridge and finally, as inmate in an asylum: his manifold personas emerge with great freshness from this remarkable book.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Carcanet
Place of Publication:Manchester [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (364 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781847775788, 1847775780, 9781847775795, 1847775799, 9781857542882, 1857542886
oclc:on1101719173
LC Classification:PR4453.C6
Dewey Decimal:821/.7

Cover -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- Maps -- INTRODUCTION -- SKETCHES IN THE LIFE OF JOHN CLARE -- MORE HINTS IN THE LIFE ETC -- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS -- APPENDIX -- THE JOURNAL -- SOME BRIEF OBSERVATIONS -- MEMORANDUMS -- CLARE'S WILL AND RELATED OBSERVATIONS -- BUSINESS DEALINGS WITH EDWARD DRURY AND JOHN TAYLOR -- THE WILL O WHISP OR JACK A LANTHORN -- A REMARKABLE DREAM -- 'CLOSES OF GREENSWARD ... ' -- JOURNEY OUT OF ESSEX -- ASYLUM OBSERVATIONS -- LETTER TO MATTHEW ALLEN -- SELF IDENTITY -- AUTUMN -- LETTERS AND NOTES OF THE NORTHAMPTON PERIOD -- GLOSSARY -- A, B, C -- INDEX -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X. -- Y, ZAbout the Authors -- Copyright.

Subjects

Agricultural laborers Agricultural laborers -- Biography. -- … Biographies Clare, John England -- Northamptonshire Great Britain Northamptonshire (Angleterre) -- Biogra… Northamptonshire (England) -- Biography Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques --… Poètes anglais -- Biographies. -- 19e s… Poetry Poets, English Poets, English -- Biography. -- 19th ce… Psychiatric hospital patients Psychiatric hospital patients -- Biogra… Travailleurs agricoles -- Biographies. …