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Titre(s) : New essays on John Clare [Texte imprimé] : poetry, culture and community / edited by Simon Kövesi and Scott McEathron
Publication : Cambridge (GB ) : Cambridge university press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-244 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: Simon Kövesi and Scott McEathronPart I : Poetry1 ; John Clare's colours
/Fiona Stafford2 ; John Clare, William Cowper and the eighteenth century /Adam Rounce3
; John Clare's conspiracy /Sarah M. ZimmermanPart II : Culture4 ; John Clare and the
new varieties of enclosure: a polemic /John Burnside5 ; Ecology with religion: kinship
in John Clare /Emma Mason6 ; The lives of Frederick Martin and the first Life of John
Clare /Scott McEathron7 ; John Clare's deaths: poverty, education, and poetry /Simon
Kövesi ; Part III : Community --8 ; John Clare's natural history /Robert Heyes9 ;
'This is radical slang': John Clare, Admiral Lord Radstock and the Queen Caroline
affair /Sam Ward10 ; John Clare and the London Magazine /Richard Cronin
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"John Clare (1793-1864) has long been recognised 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 proven literary scholars,
this collection brings out the ways in which Clare's many angles of critical vision
illuminate current understandings of environmental ethics, aesthetics, Romantic and
Victorian literary history, and the nature of work" ; "In his biography of Charles
Dickens, John Forster quotes from a now lost letter which contains Dickens' only known
reference to John Clare. It is not the kind of response we might have expected from
a novelist so well- regarded for sympathetic, nuanced portrayals of the effects and
dimensions of poverty. Forster defends his subject: A dislike of display was rooted
in [Dickens] ... His aversion to every form of what is called patronage of literature
was part of the same feeling ... These views about patronage did not make him more
indulgent to the clamour which with which it is so often invoked for the ridiculously
small. 'You read that life of Clare?' he wrote (15th of August 1865). 'Did you ever
see such preposterous exaggeration of small claims? And isn't it expressive, the perpetual
prating of him in the book as the Poet? So another Incompetent used to write to the
Literary Fund when I was on the committee: "This leaves the poet at his divine mission
in a corner of a single room. The Poet's father is wiping his spectacles. The Poet's
mother is weaving."--Yah!' He was equally intolerant of every magnificent proposal
that should render the literary man independen"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kövesi, Simon. Éditeur scientifique
McEathron, Scott (1962-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Clare, John (1793-1864) -- Critique et interprétation
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107031111. - ISBN 1107031117. - ISBN 9781108439091. - ISBN 1108439098
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454366299
Notice n° :
FRBNF45436629
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
