John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance

John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance
Author: Johanne Clare
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780773506060

As a working-class poet, born in 1793 to an impovisherished family in rural England, John Clare has often been considered of interest for the unusual nature of his life and career rather than for his poetry. In this book, Johanne Clare argues that he should be taken seriously both as a poet and as a representative figure in a period of social and agrarian upheaval. She discusses Clare's political attitudes and his views on the social issues which most affected him - poverty, economic inequality, class prejudice, and the enclosure movement - and shows how his social identity and experience were intricately related to his major writings.

John Clare in Context

John Clare in Context
Author: Geoffrey Summerfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1994-05-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521445474

Critics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.

New Essays on John Clare

New Essays on John Clare
Author: Simon Kövesi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-07-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316351955

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.

Lessons of Romanticism

Lessons of Romanticism
Author: Thomas Pfau
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780822320913

Explores how the Romantic period gave birth to a seductive cognitive cultural program that retains far reaching implications for contemporary views on individuality and relationships between the individual and larger groups of identification. Established

John Clare and the Place of Poetry

John Clare and the Place of Poetry
Author: Mina Gorji
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1846311632

Traditional accounts of Romantic poetry have depicted John Clare as a peripheral figure, an original genius whose talents removed him from the mainstream. This volume helps to show that far from being brilliant yet isolated, Clare was deeply involved in the rich cultural life of both his village and the larger metropolis. Offering an account of Clare’s poems as they relate to the literary culture and burgeoning literary history of his day, Mina Gorji defines the context in which Clare’s work can best be understood: in relation to eighteenth-century traditions as they persisted and developed in the Romantic period.

John Clare Society Journal, 7 (1988)

John Clare Society Journal, 7 (1988)
Author: Tim Chilcott
Publisher: John Clare Society
Total Pages: 60
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9780950921846

The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.

The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837

The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837
Author: Katey Castellano
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137354208

Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land.

The Romantic Poetry Handbook

The Romantic Poetry Handbook
Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118308719

An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era—Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley—as well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry. The Romantic Poetry Handbook encompasses the entire breadth of the Romantic Movement, beginning with Anna Laetitia Barbauld and running through to Thomas Lovell Beddoes and John Clare. In its central section ‘Readings’ it explores tensions, change, and continuity within the Romantic Movement, and examines a wide range of individual poems and poets through sensitive, attentive and accessible analyses. In addition, the authors provide a full introduction, a detailed historical and cultural timeline, biographies of the poets whose works are featured in the “Readings” section, and a helpful guide to further reading. The Romantic Poetry Handbook is an ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate study of British Romantic poetry. It also will appeal to every reader with an interest in the Romantics and in poetry generally.

The Romantics and the May Day Tradition

The Romantics and the May Day Tradition
Author: Essaka Joshua
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2016-02-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317017021

This important contribution to both Romantic and cultural studies situates literature by Wordsworth, Southey, Hunt, Clare, and Blake within the context of folklore and popular customs associated with May Day. Romantic responses to May Day bring into focus a range of issues now regarded as central to the writing of the period - the natural world, city life, the pastoral, regional and national identities, popular culture, cultural degeneration, and cultural difference. Essaka Joshua explores new connections between these issues in the context of a set of heterogeneous cultural practices that are rooted in the traditions and activities of diverse social groups. She shows how Romantic writers have positioned themselves in relation to what has become known as the public sphere, and the way in which they articulate an understanding of the common sphere as a site of plebeian self-expression. Joshua's nuanced account acknowledges the full complexity of class formations and inter-class relationships and permits noncanonical and canonical texts such as the Prelude, Songs of Innocence and Experience, and 'The Village Minstrel' to be reinterpreted in a cultural context that has not been previously explored by literary critics.

John Clare Society Journal, 23 (2004)

John Clare Society Journal, 23 (2004)
Author: Bridget Keegan
Publisher: John Clare Society
Total Pages: 104
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9780953899531

The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.