This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the public…
This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the public…
'This fine collection is an important contribution to Romanticism studies which will continue to be valued and read. Its essays are often fresh, original, and skillfully inserted into diverse contemporary critical conversations. The book reflects and advances recent developments…
John Clare (1793-1864), a visionary poetry whoa lso worked as an agricultural laborer, was deeply affected by the Enclosure Movement, a series of Acts of Parliament which consolidated the old strip-farming systems into larger units and removed the people's rights to common land.…
Providing a firsthand account of the land enclosure movement of the 19th century from a major English poet, this extensively researched study gives modern readers an appreciation of the divisive effects of such policies. Structured chronologically, this exploration of John Clare…
In 1841, the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest and, heading towards his home in Northborough, covered 80 miles. He was searching for his lost love, a woman already three years dead. Iain Sinclair sets out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness a…
In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead ... In 2000 Iain Sinclair set out to re-create Clare's walk away from madness, accompanied b…
In 1841, the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest and, heading towards his home in Northborough, covered 80 miles. He was searching for his lost love, a woman already three years dead. Iain Sinclair sets out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness a…
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.