I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare Contributor(s): Clare, John (Author), Bate, Jonathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0374528691 ISBN-13: 9780374528690 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2003 Annotation: This 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.7 |
LCCN: 2003045212 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 318 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: Hail, humble 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clare, John: - John Clare (1793-1864) lived all his life in rural Northamptonshire. He is widely celebrated as one of England's great nature and folklife writers. Bate, Jonathan: - "Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His books include Shakespeare and Ovid (1993); John Clare: A Biography (2003) - winner of the 2004 Hawthornden Prize and the 2005 James Tait Black Memorial prize for biography; The Genius of Shakespeare (1997); and Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare (2009). He was the editor of the Arden edition of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus(1995)." |