John Clare and community
This study of John Clare demonstrates both how he was influenced by and responded to other Romantic poets, such as Chatterton, Bloomfield, and Keats, and how Clare used oral folk-culture in his writing. The author also emphasizes Clare's interest in community, rural culture during the period of enclosure, and the transition to the modern world.
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- Full title :John Clare and community / John Goodridge.
Summary
This study of John Clare demonstrates both how he was influenced by and responded to other Romantic poets, such as Chatterton, Bloomfield, and Keats, and how Clare used oral folk-culture in his writing. The author also emphasizes Clare's interest in community, rural culture during the period of enclosure, and the transition to the modern world.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:252 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780521887021, 052188702X
- oclc:ocn962439381
- LC Classification:PR4453.C6
- Dewey Decimal:821.7
Table of Contents
Pt. 1. 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 -- Pt. 2. Representing rural life. Enclosure and the poetry of protest -- The bird's nest poems, protection and violation -- Festive ritual and folk narrative -- Storytellings : "old womens memorys"
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