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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463197103321

Autore

Clare John <1793-1864, >

Titolo

John Clare by himself / / edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell ; with wood engravings by John Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ashington : , : Mid Northumberland Arts Group

Manchester : , : Carcanet Press, , 1996

ISBN

1-84777-309-5

1-84777-578-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (533 p.)

Disciplina

821.7

821/.7

Soggetti

Poets, English - 19th century

Psychiatric hospital patients - Great Britain

Agricultural laborers - England - Northamptonshire

Electronic books.

Northamptonshire (England) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- Maps -- INTRODUCTION -- SKETCHES IN THE LIFE OF JOHN CLARE -- MORE HINTS IN THE LIFE ETC -- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS -- APPENDIX -- THE JOURNAL -- SOME BRIEF OBSERVATIONS -- MEMORANDUMS -- CLARE'S WILL AND RELATED OBSERVATIONS -- BUSINESS DEALINGS WITH EDWARD DRURY AND JOHN TAYLOR -- THE WILL O WHISP OR JACK A LANTHORN -- A REMARKABLE DREAM -- 'CLOSES OF GREENSWARD ... ' -- JOURNEY OUT OF ESSEX -- ASYLUM OBSERVATIONS -- LETTER TO MATTHEW ALLEN -- SELF IDENTITY -- AUTUMN -- LETTERS AND NOTES OF THE NORTHAMPTON PERIOD -- GLOSSARY -- A, B, C -- INDEX -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X. -- Y, ZAbout the Authors -- Copyright.

Sommario/riassunto

John Clare was a defining voice of the rural poetic tradition. His story was first set down more than two centuries ago and has captured the imagination of the reading public ever since. it is told most vividly and poignantly in Clare's own words. This volume brings together, in



definitive form, all Clare's important autobiographical writing. His Journalis set alongside his Sketches and 'Autobiographical Fragments' as well as his famous 'Journey out of Essex'. Maps of Clare's countryside are also included, as are his will and extracts from his asylum letters. Clare appears here as ploughboy, gardener's boy and militiaman; as lover and husband, acquaintance of Hazlitt, Lamb and Coleridge and finally, as inmate in an asylum: his manifold personas emerge with great freshness from this remarkable book.