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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... writing of this book . My thanks are due , first , to W.J. Keith , who waited patiently and read several earlier ... written with the support of the Canada Coun- cil and published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation ...
... writing of this book . My thanks are due , first , to W.J. Keith , who waited patiently and read several earlier ... written with the support of the Canada Coun- cil and published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation ...
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... writing very differ- ently about his " humble situation , " and by 1830 he was claiming the right to be judged " without any appeals to want of education lowness of origin or any other foil that officion [ officiousness ? ] chuses to ...
... writing very differ- ently about his " humble situation , " and by 1830 he was claiming the right to be judged " without any appeals to want of education lowness of origin or any other foil that officion [ officiousness ? ] chuses to ...
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... written from the viewpoint of a rural labourer , and always his personal bias was openly declared . Regis- tering ... writing in the same period about the same acquisitive values ( but from the other side of the park - gates ) ...
... written from the viewpoint of a rural labourer , and always his personal bias was openly declared . Regis- tering ... writing in the same period about the same acquisitive values ( but from the other side of the park - gates ) ...
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... writing , why he felt alienated from the tradition and from his public and how he learned to trust his own creative instincts . These are , one might suppose , primarily aesthetic matters ; and yet , as I hope to show , it is precisely ...
... writing , why he felt alienated from the tradition and from his public and how he learned to trust his own creative instincts . These are , one might suppose , primarily aesthetic matters ; and yet , as I hope to show , it is precisely ...
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... writing them , Clare was concerned not only with the social implications of poverty and enclosure but with the problem of how to present these issues , how to disclose his personal involvement with his themes . Because they are such ...
... writing them , Clare was concerned not only with the social implications of poverty and enclosure but with the problem of how to present these issues , how to disclose his personal involvement with his themes . Because they are such ...
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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