John Clare and the Bounds of CircumstanceMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 01/10/1987 - 240 páginas The author suggests that the full significance of Clare's contribution to English literature is found not in his social criticism, but in his refusal to dissociate himself from his past or to become assimilated into the mainstream of English culture at the expense of his class-identity. She argues that a clear set of aesthetic principles informs his finest work and provides the first thematic and structural classification of his poetry. Focussing on the major vocational poems and selected passages from the prose, she shows how Clare formulated the creative ideas and rhetorical techniques that allowed him to give unified expression to both his social and literary concerns. Clare's deep involvement with nature and rural England was not only the basis for his poetry, but also enabled him to articulate beliefs which opposed the inhumane values of his time. |
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... criticism , but in his refusal to dissociate himself from his past or to become assimilated into the mainstream of English culture at the expense of his class identity . She argues that a clear set of aesthetic principles informs his ...
... criticism , but in his refusal to dissociate himself from his past or to become assimilated into the mainstream of English culture at the expense of his class identity . She argues that a clear set of aesthetic principles informs his ...
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... Criticism and interpretation . 2. Clare , John , 1793-1864 - Political and social views . I. Title . PR4453.C6Z68 1987 821'.7 C87-094124-0 Material from Oxford Authors series John Clare , edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell , Copy ...
... Criticism and interpretation . 2. Clare , John , 1793-1864 - Political and social views . I. Title . PR4453.C6Z68 1987 821'.7 C87-094124-0 Material from Oxford Authors series John Clare , edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell , Copy ...
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... critics in particular have also encouraged readers of Clare to be more sceptical and more self - conscious about the evalu- ative biases of our critical procedures . Much of Clare's poetry does not invite ordinary interpretation ; it ...
... critics in particular have also encouraged readers of Clare to be more sceptical and more self - conscious about the evalu- ative biases of our critical procedures . Much of Clare's poetry does not invite ordinary interpretation ; it ...
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... criticism was written from the viewpoint of a rural labourer , and always his personal bias was openly declared . Regis- tering this viewpoint was important to Clare , not only because it had not yet been adequately recorded in ...
... criticism was written from the viewpoint of a rural labourer , and always his personal bias was openly declared . Regis- tering this viewpoint was important to Clare , not only because it had not yet been adequately recorded in ...
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... criticism they present was undoubtedly shaped and quickened by Clare's personal experi- ence , that personal experience is not inscribed within their forms . * In The Shepherd's Calendar Clare wrote about rural labouring life in general ...
... criticism they present was undoubtedly shaped and quickened by Clare's personal experi- ence , that personal experience is not inscribed within their forms . * In The Shepherd's Calendar Clare wrote about rural labouring life in general ...
Índice
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The Thousands and the Few | 12 |
The Enclosure Elegies | 36 |
3 The Struggle for Acceptance | 56 |
4 The Village Minstrel | 86 |
5 Language and Learning | 112 |
6 Literary Principles | 132 |
The Bird Poems | 164 |
Conclusion | 189 |
A Note on Texts | 195 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index | 215 |
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