A Champion for the Poor by John Clare
This collection of poems and prose, which includes "The Parish", in a new and corrected text, "The Hue and Cry" and "The Summons" reveal John Clare's reactions to events of the time and the political and social conditions. Such writings illuminate the poetry and help enhance our sense of Clare and his attitudes to the world of his day.
John Clare (1793-1864): Born the son of a thresher at Helpston, Northamptonshire, John Clare is a rural poet and story teller. He is a poet of spiritual originality, as compelling at his best as Crabbe and Wordsworth as a story teller in verse. He was an assiduous practitioner of the sonnet form at all periods of his poetic career. The sonnets he produced in the last few years before his institutionalisation in 1837, first at High Beech and then in Northampton General Asylum, are of particular interest, since he exploited the inherent brevity of the form to express a simultaneous precision of observation and starkness of vision that he rarely achieved either before or after.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857544237 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857544234 |
| Title | A Champion for the Poor |
| Author | John Clare |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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