|
List Price: $18.95Amazon.com's Price: $14.21 You Save: $4.74 (25%)as of 03/21/2010 01:54 EDT
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780199549795
Edition: Reissue
ISBN: 0199549796
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
After years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was generally not appreciated by his contemporaries, and his later mental instability further contributed to his loss of critical esteem. But the extraordinary range of his poetical gifts has restored him to the company of contemporaries like Lord Byron, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
This authoritative edition brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters and illustrates all aspects of his talent. It contains poems from all stages of his career, including love poetry and bird and nature poems. Written in his native Northamptonshire, Clare's work provides a fascinating reflection of rural society, often underscored by his own sense of isolation and despair. Clare's writings are presented with the minimum of editorial interference, and with a new introduction by the poet and scholar Tom Paulin.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
John Clare Major Works. Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford World's Classics, 2008. Paperback 531 pages. ISBN-10: 0199549796
It's more than sad that John Clare (1793-1864), a major poet of towering genius, should have been so unfairly marginalized by society that he never succeeded in being accepted into the canon of English literature. Any reader of English poetry knows of Byron, Shelley, and Keats; glance in any anthology and you will find them represented by large chunks ... Read More
Rating:  -
Overall I would say this is an excellent collection of Clare's work. I especially appreciated the prose section at the back. My main criticism is that it includes some excerpts of his longer poems, but does not have them in full. For my own purposes, I wish they would have included the full text of The Village Minstrel as they are using more of a manuscript version and the only printed version of this poem available is the 1821 edition with the editor's sometimes radical changes. However, I recognize ... Read More
Rating: -
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R39RFTBTHXDLCO Clare, who spent the last 22 years of his life in a madhouse (where he also wrote his best poetry) is a difficult poet to review, still more difficult to read aloud. He deep, inner numinous connexion with the natural, as conveyed throughout this excellent Oxford edition of his works, reminds one of nothing so much as Van Gogh's letters to brother Theo - and also his truly tortured sense of loneness and alienation from mankind.
Reading ... Read More
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780199549795
Edition: Reissue
ISBN: 0199549796
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA