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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... interest for the unusual nature of his life and career rather than for his poetry . In this book , Johanne Clare argues that Clare should be taken seriously both as a poet and as a representative figure in a period of social and ...
... interest for the unusual nature of his life and career rather than for his poetry . In this book , Johanne Clare argues that Clare should be taken seriously both as a poet and as a representative figure in a period of social and ...
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... interest in Clare and for providing a forum in which I could express my own interest . I am also indebted to Eli Mandel without whose help I would not have struggled with this book or begun other projects . I wish to thank the ...
... interest in Clare and for providing a forum in which I could express my own interest . I am also indebted to Eli Mandel without whose help I would not have struggled with this book or begun other projects . I wish to thank the ...
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... interest in the first vol- ume of this " second Burns " : two months after its publication one thousand copies of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery had been sold , and by 1821 four editions had been printed . But Clare passed ...
... interest in the first vol- ume of this " second Burns " : two months after its publication one thousand copies of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery had been sold , and by 1821 four editions had been printed . But Clare passed ...
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... interest of those who hoped that because of his background he would contribute some- thing of original importance to English literature . It was the con- descending nature of the interest in his situation , not the interest per se ...
... interest of those who hoped that because of his background he would contribute some- thing of original importance to English literature . It was the con- descending nature of the interest in his situation , not the interest per se ...
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... 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 social ...
... 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 social ...
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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