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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780374528690
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0374528691
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 344
Publication Date: November 15, 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Hail, humble Helpstone ...
Where dawning genius never met the day,
Where useless ignorance slumbers life away
Unknown nor heeded, where low genius tries
Above the vulgar and the vain to rise.
--from "Helpstone"
"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of the great "peasant poet"'s remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers for two centuries: the tender chronicler of nature and childhood; the champion of folkways in the face of oppression; the passionate, sweet-tongued love-poet; and the lonely visionary confined, in old age and senility, to asylums.
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I purchased this book because of Clare's astonishingly beautiful poem "I Am," one of the best poems ever written. Clare's history of mental illness is well-documented, and "I Am" the poem expresses all the attendant pathos and longing beautifully. Most of the balance of this book, however, is filled with bland, bucolic, typically nineteenth-century poetry. Like an English countryside, there is much beauty here. But if you spend too much time here you'll need more than tea to perk up your afternoon.
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I was very happy with this prodcut. It was shipped very quickly and it was in great condidition when I recieved it. I will definitely be purcahsing more items from amazon!
Thank you for everything!
(the book is a great tool in my British Literature college class)
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Everyone knows of Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan,' Keats' 'The Eve of St. Agnes,' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias.' These and other memorable poems of the Romantic period have been read and enjoyed by many and for very good reasons. Their authors were talented and accomplished writers whose poems bring us real pleasure.
If we think about it, however, we need to consider that these poems were written in the comfort of warm studies by fairly well-off bookish men whose sensibilities, certainly in the case ... Read More
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Underrated for so long as a result of the same English academic snobishness that leads intelligent people to deny that a homely man of Stratford-upon-avon could have written Hamlet, its good to see that John Clare is finally being recognised as the great poet that he was. Its often said that he was a consistantly good poet, without composing any real classic. Yet read the title poem 'I Am' a few times, learn of its context in the final admission of Clare into a lunatic asylum, and I defy you to remain unmoved ... Read More
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As I love you all, I entreat you (yes, ENTREAT you) to read the poetry of John Clare. Being a woman of very inefficient words, I have found a bowl of cherries, a box of chocolates of things to say to express how I feel (you see what I mean?)
If you in love (as I am), please do not neglect to read this book. It will tell you how you feel, and then you can tell them, rather more eloquently than any of us mere mortals generally can.
I am a poet myself. I have been published in an anthology. ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780374528690
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0374528691
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 344
Publication Date: November 15, 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux