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John Clare in Context

Name: John Clare in Context
Author: Hugh Haughton
ISBN: 9780521020893

by Hugh Haughton (Editor), Adam Phillips (Editor), Geoffrey Summerfield

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Overview

The marginalization of John Clare's poetry, despite renewed interest in Romanticism and the literature of madness, is still an enigma. This important collection of new critical essays provides a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary, and will be a landmark in the history of his reception. It includes chapters on landscape and botany, Clare's politics, his madness, Clare and the critics, and a remarkable essay by Seamus Heaney on Clare's importance as a poetic precursor.

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Critics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.

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"...an impressive collection of essays, thematically linked by their emphasis on the question of the form and content of Clare's knowledge." The Wordsworth Circle