Selected Poetry of John Clare

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Product ID:	9780571223718
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Selected Poetry of John Clare
Authors:	Author: John Clare, Professor Jonathan Bate
Page Count:	352
Subjects:	Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets
Description:	Select Guide Rating John Clare was the great Romantic 'peasant poet' - the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, confined in his maturity to lunatic asylums. This is the first selection of the great Romantic ''peasant poet'' John Clare to make available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, confined in his maturity to lunatic asylums. ''Clare grabs hold of you - no, he doesn''t grab hold of you, he is already there, talking to you before you''ve arrived on the scene, telling you about himself, about the things that are closest and dearest to him, and it would no more occur to him to do otherwise than it would occur to Whitman to stop singing you his song of himself.'' John Ashbery ''It is what Lawrence calls the poetry of the living present.'' Seamus Heaney
Imprint Name:	Faber & Faber
Publisher Name:	Faber & Faber
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2004-10-07

Weight	268 g
Dimensions	196 × 127 × 23 mm