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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... conditions of the rural labouring poor : O Poverty ! thy frowns were early dealt . O'er him who mourn'd thee , not by fancy led To whine and wail o'er woes he never felt , Staining his rhymes with tears he never shed , And 5 Introduction.
... conditions of the rural labouring poor : O Poverty ! thy frowns were early dealt . O'er him who mourn'd thee , not by fancy led To whine and wail o'er woes he never felt , Staining his rhymes with tears he never shed , And 5 Introduction.
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... felt alienated from the tradition and from his public and how he learned to trust his own creative instincts . These are , one might suppose , primarily aesthetic matters ; and yet , as I hope to show , it is precisely these questions ...
... felt alienated from the tradition and from his public and how he learned to trust his own creative instincts . These are , one might suppose , primarily aesthetic matters ; and yet , as I hope to show , it is precisely these questions ...
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... felt his hopes for financial independence change into despair . But certainly one of those truths involved his recognition that he lived in a society in which " proud distinction makes a wider space Between the genteel and the vulgar ...
... felt his hopes for financial independence change into despair . But certainly one of those truths involved his recognition that he lived in a society in which " proud distinction makes a wider space Between the genteel and the vulgar ...
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... felt interests , no financial resources , few close friends - when his work broke against the prej- udice and indifference of his contemporaries . Yet his personal cir- cumstances might have remained in the background ( if not in his ...
... felt interests , no financial resources , few close friends - when his work broke against the prej- udice and indifference of his contemporaries . Yet his personal cir- cumstances might have remained in the background ( if not in his ...
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Índice
3 | |
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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