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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... less to do with questions of aesthetic preference than with the fact that what is definitively Clare is primarily to be found in the poetry he wrote when he was still able to face life with courage , curiosity , and hope . The challenge ...
... less to do with questions of aesthetic preference than with the fact that what is definitively Clare is primarily to be found in the poetry he wrote when he was still able to face life with courage , curiosity , and hope . The challenge ...
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... less fascinating than the fact that he managed to be a poet at all . In his early years , Clare himself encouraged just this kind of feel- ing by stressing the negative impact of his situation upon his crea- tive achievement . One can ...
... less fascinating than the fact that he managed to be a poet at all . In his early years , Clare himself encouraged just this kind of feel- ing by stressing the negative impact of his situation upon his crea- tive achievement . One can ...
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... less than staggering significance . These poems are concerned , though in remarkably diverse ways , with the poet's role and with the qualities of mind , feeling , and sensibility which Clare brought to his vocation , and for this ...
... less than staggering significance . These poems are concerned , though in remarkably diverse ways , with the poet's role and with the qualities of mind , feeling , and sensibility which Clare brought to his vocation , and for this ...
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... less pointed , a contribution to the tradition of rural dissent as the poverty poems : the landscape experience afforded Clare a way of escaping from society but it also allowed him to develop the poise and articulate the beliefs with ...
... less pointed , a contribution to the tradition of rural dissent as the poverty poems : the landscape experience afforded Clare a way of escaping from society but it also allowed him to develop the poise and articulate the beliefs with ...
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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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