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John Clare Jonathan Bate

John Clare By Jonathan Bate

John Clare by Jonathan Bate


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The definitive biography of John Clare -- the poet's poet -- from Jonathan Bate

John Clare Summary

John Clare by Jonathan Bate

'What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world' Seamus Heaney

John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, Wordsworth or Shelley - and a life to match. The 'poet's poet', he has a place in the national pantheon and, more tangibly, a plaque in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner, unveiled in 1989.

Here at last is Clare's full story, from his birth in poverty and employment as an agricultural labourer, via his burgeoning promise as a writer - cultivated under the gaze of rival patrons - and moment of fame, in the company of John Keats, as the toast of literary London, to his final decline into mental illness and the last years of his life, confined in asylums. Clare's ringing voice - quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous - emerges through extracts from his letters, journals, autobiographical writings and poems, as Jonathan Bate brings this complex man, his revered work and his ribald world, vividly to life.

About Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate, born in 1958, is the author of The Genius of Shakespeare, Song of the Earth and a novel, The Cure for Love. He is the Leverhulme Research Professor of English at the University of Warwick and writes regularly for the Telegraph, the TLS and the Independent.

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GOR001562613
9780330371124
0330371126
John Clare by Jonathan Bate
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
20040618
672
Winner of James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2004 (UK) Short-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize 2004 (UK)
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