| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Palgrave advances |
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Palgrave advances.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Texts -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Poetry's Variety: John Clare and the Poetic Scene in the 1820s and 1830s -- Poetry and Its Markets -- Clare's Poetics of Doubt -- Clare in The Anniversary -- Clare's Variety -- Bibliography -- 'Sweet the Merry Bells Ring Round': John Clare's Songs for the Drawing Room -- Bibliography -- 'Sea Songs Love Ballads & c & c': John Clare and Vernacular Song -- Clare's Singing Book -- Taken Down from the Singing |
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'I Shall Insert Some Imitations' -- 'The Tales Ballads & Songs That I Want for the Vol.' -- Bibliography -- John Clare's Landforms -- Mock-Heroic and Satire -- Couplets and Rhetorical Form -- Boundedness and Unboundedness: Walking Clare's line -- Sonnet and Sequence -- Bibliography -- John Clare's Ear: Metres and Rhythms -- Song Forms -- Spoken Rhythms -- Asylum Verse -- Bibliography -- John Clare's The Shepherd's Calendar and Forms of Repetition -- Bibliography -- John Clare's Dynamic Animals -- Bibliography -- Multispecies Work in John Clare's 'Birds Nesting' Poems -- Birds' Nests -- Birdsong |
| Summary |
'This fine collection is an important contribution to Romanticism studies which will continue to be valued and read. Its essays are often fresh, original, and skillfully inserted into diverse contemporary critical conversations. The book reflects and advances recent developments in Clare scholarship in several areas: Clare's strong community ties, the significant roles of sound and song in his verse, and, especially, his importance for modern ecocriticism.' -- Elizabeth Helsinger, University of Chicago, USA This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Clare's first volume of poetry, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the scholarship collected here both affirms Clare's importance as a major nineteenth-century poet and reveals how his verse continually provokes fresh areas of enquiry. Offering new archival, theoretical, and sometimes corrective insights into Clare's world and work, the essays in this volume cover a multitude of topics, including Clare's immersion in song and print culture, his formal ingenuity, his environmental and ecological imagination, his mental and physical health, and his experience of asylums. This book gives students a range of imaginative avenues into Clare's work, and offers both new readers and experienced Clare scholars a vital set of contributions to ongoing critical debates |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Clare, John, 1793-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Clare, John, 1793-1864 fast |
| Subject |
Poets, English -- 19th century.
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Literary studies: poetry & poets.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literature & literary studies.
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Literary Criticism -- Poetry.
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Language Arts & Disciplines -- General.
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Poets, English
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Literature
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Literature, Modern
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Poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kövesi, Simon.
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Lafford, Erin Kate, 1989-
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| ISBN |
9783030433741 |
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3030433749 |
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