Title John Clare, politics, and poetry / Alan D. Vardy

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Clare's 'Minorness' -- Viewing and Reviewing -- 'Grammar in Learning is like Tyranny in Government' -- 'The Cottager's Friend' -- 'Medlars' -- The Marketplace -- The Natural Histories of Helpstone -- Clare, Cobbett and 'Captain Swing' -- Epilogue: Clare's Agency -- Notes -- Index Summary John Clare, Politics and Poetry provides an important challenge to traditional readings of Clare's poetry and career. Clare has been read as the victim of editorial neglect and heavy-handedness and historical circumstance, from agricultural enclosure to a poor market. While subject to external forces Clare nonetheless saw himself as an active participant in shaping his professional career. He was active in ongoing developments in literary taste, despite his reputation as a 'peasant poet', and worked diligently to expand his literary range. This new book examines the traditional portrait of 'poor John Clare', from the aesthetic assumptions behind the initial reception of of his poetry to the critical construction of 'Romanticism', and exposes his portrait as a caricature. Vardy recovers Clare's agency by situating him in the historical specificity of the literary marketplace, re-examining his relationship to his patrons and investigating his investments in the social and political questions of the day Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-217) and index Notes Print version record Subject Clare, John, 1793-1864. Clare, John, 1793-1864 -- Political and social views Clare, John, 1793-1864 -- Authorship SUBJECT Clare, John, 1793-1864 fast Subject Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography Agricultural laborers -- England -- Northamptonshire -- Biography Mentally ill -- Great Britain -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Agricultural laborers Authorship Intellectual life Literature Mentally ill Poets, English Political and social views Psychiatric hospital patients 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799. Ireland. Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800. Literary studies: general. Literary studies: poetry & poets. Literature: history & criticism. United Kingdom, Great Britain. Literature. SUBJECT Northamptonshire (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Northamptonshire (England) -- In literature Northamptonshire (England) -- Biography Subject England -- Northamptonshire Great Britain Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book LC no. 2003049763 ISBN 9780230505810 0230505813 1280437839 9781280437830

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