Selected Poems

John Clare, Geoffrey Summerfield

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English

Penguin
06 April 2000

Includes critical introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary

Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry.

His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of the labourer's life, the wheatfields and hedgerows of his village in Northamptonshire. This authoritative and engaging selection includes poems from every stage of Clare's poetic career, organised by theme, from 'Birds and Beasts' to 'Madhouses, Prisons and Whorehouses'.

By: John Clare
Volume editor: Geoffrey Summerfield
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9780140437249
ISBN 10: 014043724X
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 06 April 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Clare (1793 - 1864), the son of a Northamptonshire labourer, worked variously as a ploughboy, reaper, and thresher. He began writing verse at the age of 13 and had his first book of poems published in 1820. His suffered from severe bouts of melancholy and died in Northamptonshire Lunatic Asylum. Geoffrey Summerfield teaches English at New York University. He has spent many years working on the texts of Clare's poetry and is a leading authority on the poet.