Selected Poetry of John Clare

John Clare, Professor Jonathan Bate

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Faber & Faber
01 July 2005

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

John Clare was the great Romantic 'peasant poet' - the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, confined in his maturity to lunatic asylums.

By: John Clare
Edited by: Professor Jonathan Bate
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 125mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 275g
ISBN: 9780571223718
ISBN 10: 0571223710
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 July 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Bate is the author of the acclaimed biography John Clare (2003), The Genius of Shakespeare (1997), and The Song of the Earth (2000). He is Leverhulme Research Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick.

Reviews for Selected Poetry of John Clare

'Clare grabs hold of you - no, he doesn't grab hold of you, he is already there, talking to you before you've arrived on the scene, telling you about himself, about the things that are closest and dearest to him, and it would no more occur to him to do otherwise than it would occur to Whitman to stop singing you his song of himself.' John Ashbery; 'It is what Lawrence calls the poetry of the living present.' Seamus Heaney