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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... rural England in 1793 , John Clare has often been considered of 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 ...
... rural England in 1793 , John Clare has often been considered of 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 ...
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... Rural Life and Scenery had been sold , and by 1821 four editions had been printed . But Clare passed out of the mind of the reading public almost as quickly as he had passed in . Only a year later , The Village Minstrel was published ...
... Rural Life and Scenery had been sold , and by 1821 four editions had been printed . But Clare passed out of the mind of the reading public almost as quickly as he had passed in . Only a year later , The Village Minstrel was published ...
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... rural community of Helpston at the beginning of the nineteenth century commands our attention not from the distant reaches of " back- ground , " but from the foreground of his texts , in his chosen subject - matter and in the expressive ...
... rural community of Helpston at the beginning of the nineteenth century commands our attention not from the distant reaches of " back- ground , " but from the foreground of his texts , in his chosen subject - matter and in the expressive ...
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... to make them one . The first poems I shall examine are the early poverty poems and the enclosure elegies . Both these groups belong to the tradition of rural dissent , and both reveal the depth of Clare's 6 The Bounds of Circumstance.
... to make them one . The first poems I shall examine are the early poverty poems and the enclosure elegies . Both these groups belong to the tradition of rural dissent , and both reveal the depth of Clare's 6 The Bounds of Circumstance.
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... rural labouring poor and of their relations to the master class . The Shepherd's Calendar offers a fuller and more varied portrait of the rustic community at work and play . Finally , the " hard country sonnets " contain more striking ...
... rural labouring poor and of their relations to the master class . The Shepherd's Calendar offers a fuller and more varied portrait of the rustic community at work and play . Finally , the " hard country sonnets " contain more striking ...
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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