New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107031111)

John Clare (1793-1864) has long been recognized as one of England's foremost poets of nature, landscape and rural life. Scholars and general readers alike regard his tremendous creative output as a testament to a probing and powerful intellect. Clare was that rare amalgam ‒ a poet who wrote from a working-class, impoverished background, who was steeped in folk and ballad culture, and who yet, against all social expectations and prejudices, read and wrote himself into a grand literary tradition. All the while he maintained a determined sense of his own commitments to the poor, to natural history and to the local. Through the diverse approaches of ten scholars, this collection shows how Clare's many angles of critical vision illuminate current understandings of environmental ethics, aesthetics, Romantic and Victorian literary history, and the nature of work.

Author: Simon Kesi
ISBN-10: 1107031117
ISBN-13: 9781107031111
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2015
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2016