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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... relations between Clare's life and work and between what he calls " the writer's lived awareness " and " the ' awareness ' embodied in the created work ” ( p . xv ) . The following chapters are based upon assumptions which directly ...
... relations between Clare's life and work and between what he calls " the writer's lived awareness " and " the ' awareness ' embodied in the created work ” ( p . xv ) . The following chapters are based upon assumptions which directly ...
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... relations to his physical and human environment . The enclosure elegies represent a consistent and well - organized response to one of the crucial developments of his period ; several of the elegies are of high intrinsic value . But the ...
... relations to his physical and human environment . The enclosure elegies represent a consistent and well - organized response to one of the crucial developments of his period ; several of the elegies are of high intrinsic value . But the ...
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... relations to the tradition and to his reading public . No professional writer of the early nineteenth century was placed as low as Clare in the social hierarchy of the period or given so few opportunities for intellectual advancement ...
... relations to the tradition and to his reading public . No professional writer of the early nineteenth century was placed as low as Clare in the social hierarchy of the period or given so few opportunities for intellectual advancement ...
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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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