John Clare a biography
Publisher's description: John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive li...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
2003
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
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Clare, John <1793-1864>
> Clare, John <1793-1864> - Biographies
> Clare, John
> Geschichte 1800-1900
> Malades mentaux - Grande-bretagne - Biographies
> Nature dans la littérature
> Patients dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies
> Poètes anglais - 19e siècle - Biographies
> Travailleurs agricoles - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies
> Vie rurale dans la littérature
> Agricultural laborers
> Country life in literature
> Mentally ill
> Nature in literature
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> Großbritannien
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Publisher's description: John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive literary biography. Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work: his birth in poverty, his work as an agricultural labourer, his burgeoning promise as a writer--cultivated under the gaze of rival patrons--then his moment of fame in the company of John Keats and the toast of literary London, and finally his decline into mental illness and his last years confined in asylums. Clare's ringing voice--quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous--emerges in generous quotation from his letters, journals, autobiographical writings, and his poems, as Jonathan Bate, the celebrated scholar of Shakespeare, brings the complex man, his beloved work, and his ribald world vividly to life. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-632) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xix, [16] p. of plates, 648 p. ill., map : 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0374179905 0-374-17990-5 |