A study of Clare's literary influences, both the rural folk culture in which he grew up and contemporary literature.
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 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.
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 duri…
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 of this study of Clare and …