Selected Poems
$35.49
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
6 April 2000
Summary
Includes critical introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary.
Clare’s highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of the labourer’s life, the wheatfields and hedgerows of his village in Northamptonshire.
This authoritative and engaging selection includes poems from every stage of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140437249 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014043724X |
| Author: | John Clare |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 6 April 2000 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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Critics Review
”[Clare] lived near the abyss but resolved extreme experience into something gentle.”
John Clare
John Clare (1793 - 1864), the son of a Northamptonshire labourer, worked variously as a ploughboy, reaper, and thresher. He began writing verse at the age of 13 and had his first book of poems published in 1820. He suffered from severe bouts of melancholy and died in Northamptonshire Lunatic Asylum.
Geoffrey Summerfield teaches English at New York University. He has spent many years working on the texts of Clare’s poetry and is a leading authority on the poet.
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