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John Clare and Community

John Clare and Community

Goodridge, John

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Book 96

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 052188702X
ISBN13: 9780521887021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 20 2012
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
John Clare (1793-1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world. Born into a rural laboring family, he felt connected to two communities: his native village and the Romantic and earlier poets who inspired him. The first part of this study of Clare and community shows how Clare absorbed and responded to his reading of a selection of poets including Chatterton, Bloomfield, Gray and Keats, revealing just how serious the process of self-education was to his development. The second part shows how he combined this reading with the oral folk-culture he was steeped in, to create an unrivaled poetic record of a rural culture during the period of enclosure, and the painful transition to the modern world. In his lifelong engagement with rural and literary life, Clare understood the limitations as well as the strengths in communities, the pleasures as well as the horrors of isolation.

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