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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... poet and as a representative figure in a period of social and agrarian upheaval . She discusses Clare's political attitudes and his views on the social issues which most affected him - poverty , economic inequality , class preju- dice ...
... poet and as a representative figure in a period of social and agrarian upheaval . She discusses Clare's political attitudes and his views on the social issues which most affected him - poverty , economic inequality , class preju- dice ...
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... poet of Northamptonshire . As his most recent editors have observed : - The label of peasant - poet was attached to him by his publishers with the best of intentions , however ridiculous and irrelevant it may seem to us today who ever ...
... poet of Northamptonshire . As his most recent editors have observed : - The label of peasant - poet was attached to him by his publishers with the best of intentions , however ridiculous and irrelevant it may seem to us today who ever ...
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... poet than for his poetry . What Hazlitt said of Chatterton might well apply to Clare : he has suffered " an ... poet and his poetry must be less fascinating than the fact that he managed to be a poet at all . In his early years , Clare ...
... poet than for his poetry . What Hazlitt said of Chatterton might well apply to Clare : he has suffered " an ... poet and his poetry must be less fascinating than the fact that he managed to be a poet at all . In his early years , Clare ...
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... poet continued to attract more attention than his poetry . Yet , as Clare himself well knew , there was a difference between the " officious interferences " of those who found him merely inter- esting because he was a peasant - poet ...
... poet continued to attract more attention than his poetry . Yet , as Clare himself well knew , there was a difference between the " officious interferences " of those who found him merely inter- esting because he was a peasant - poet ...
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... poet's imaginative life and creative aspirations - subjects which social historians may be forgiven for finding of less than staggering significance . These poems are concerned , though in remarkably diverse ways , with the poet's role ...
... poet's imaginative life and creative aspirations - subjects which social historians may be forgiven for finding of less than staggering significance . These poems are concerned , though in remarkably diverse ways , with the poet's role ...
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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