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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... experience were intricately related to his major writings . - The author suggests that the full significance of Clare's contri- bution to English literature is found , not in his social criticism , but in his refusal to dissociate ...
... experience were intricately related to his major writings . - The author suggests that the full significance of Clare's contri- bution to English literature is found , not in his social criticism , but in his refusal to dissociate ...
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... experience . But hav- ing said this ( and it is not a point , I think , that needs to be laboured ) , one can then say that the relationship between the poetry of the 1820s and 1830s and the asylum verse seems to be one of inversion ...
... experience . But hav- ing said this ( and it is not a point , I think , that needs to be laboured ) , one can then say that the relationship between the poetry of the 1820s and 1830s and the asylum verse seems to be one of inversion ...
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... experience of hard labour ( for which he was both physically and mentally unsuited ) , his sense of grievous loss because of the enclosure of his native village , his eco- nomically necessary and psychically dislocating move to North ...
... experience of hard labour ( for which he was both physically and mentally unsuited ) , his sense of grievous loss because of the enclosure of his native village , his eco- nomically necessary and psychically dislocating move to North ...
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... experience as a labouring man living in the small rural community of Helpston at the beginning of the nineteenth century commands our attention not from the distant reaches of " back- ground , " but from the foreground of his texts , in ...
... experience as a labouring man living in the small rural community of Helpston at the beginning of the nineteenth century commands our attention not from the distant reaches of " back- ground , " but from the foreground of his texts , in ...
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... experience as a poor , disenfranchised , formally uneducated labouring man . If there is a single theme which unites the disparate group of writings I shall discuss , it is to be found not only in Clare's persistent emphasis upon his ...
... experience as a poor , disenfranchised , formally uneducated labouring man . If there is a single theme which unites the disparate group of writings I shall discuss , it is to be found not only in Clare's persistent emphasis upon his ...
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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