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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... tion , to resist conventional forms of textual analysis . These three critics have been especially adept in playing with , rather than against , the sense of surface strangeness in Clare's work . In identi- fying and explaining the ways ...
... tion , to resist conventional forms of textual analysis . These three critics have been especially adept in playing with , rather than against , the sense of surface strangeness in Clare's work . In identi- fying and explaining the ways ...
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... tion which distinguishes their author will be some excuse in their favour , & serve to make an atonement for the many inaccuracies & imperfections found in them . " This was at once an apology for his poetry and for his social ...
... tion which distinguishes their author will be some excuse in their favour , & serve to make an atonement for the many inaccuracies & imperfections found in them . " This was at once an apology for his poetry and for his social ...
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... tion , but with the causes and consequences of his belief that ( with scant exception ) his readers - whatever their place in the hierarchy of status - tended to assess his poetry in terms prescribed by the culture of gentility ...
... tion , but with the causes and consequences of his belief that ( with scant exception ) his readers - whatever their place in the hierarchy of status - tended to assess his poetry in terms prescribed by the culture of gentility ...
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... tion , for Clare found much to celebrate in rustic life and village custom , and his delight in nature led him to write some of the most expansive and celebrative poems in the rural tradition . He thought of nature as his greatest ...
... tion , for Clare found much to celebrate in rustic life and village custom , and his delight in nature led him to write some of the most expansive and celebrative poems in the rural tradition . He thought of nature as his greatest ...
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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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