John Clare and Community

By:

John Goodridge

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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John Clare (1793–1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world. Born into a rural labouring 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 unrivalled 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.

Author Biography:

John Goodridge is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University.

Release date Australia

December 20th, 2012

Author

John Goodridge

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

274

Series

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Dimensions

157x235x21

ISBN-13

9780521887021

Product ID

20396581

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