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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... wrote when he was still able to face life with courage , curiosity , and hope . The challenge all Clare scholars continue to face is that of pro- ducing work which will appeal in its intensity , focus , and detail to other specialists ...
... wrote when he was still able to face life with courage , curiosity , and hope . The challenge all Clare scholars continue to face is that of pro- ducing work which will appeal in its intensity , focus , and detail to other specialists ...
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... wrote about it . I have tried to show that he wrote about it , not glancingly , here and there , but directly , specifically , almost systematically , in a group of poems that I have labelled the enclosure elegies . Everyone now knows ...
... wrote about it . I have tried to show that he wrote about it , not glancingly , here and there , but directly , specifically , almost systematically , in a group of poems that I have labelled the enclosure elegies . Everyone now knows ...
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... wrote about the prevailing values , historical events , and class conditions which shaped the world in which he lived . Almost all of his social criticism was written from the viewpoint of a rural labourer , and always his personal bias ...
... wrote about the prevailing values , historical events , and class conditions which shaped the world in which he lived . Almost all of his social criticism was written from the viewpoint of a rural labourer , and always his personal bias ...
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... wrote about poverty as a poor man , about the worst effects of enclosure as a man who had suffered them , about class - prejudice as it affected his personal dignity and creative poise . Indeed , even when he was not specifically ...
... wrote about poverty as a poor man , about the worst effects of enclosure as a man who had suffered them , about class - prejudice as it affected his personal dignity and creative poise . Indeed , even when he was not specifically ...
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... wrote about rural labouring life in general , not about his own life in particular , and in The Parish he looked at the experience of poverty rather than out from the centre of that experience . In constrast , the early poverty poems ...
... wrote about rural labouring life in general , not about his own life in particular , and in The Parish he looked at the experience of poverty rather than out from the centre of that experience . In constrast , the early poverty poems ...
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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