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John Clare's Romanticism /

This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare s poetry with texts we now think of as...

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Main Authors: White, Adam. (Author)
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literature.
Literature, Modern > 18th century.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Poetry.
Poetry and Poetics.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53859-4
Summary: This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare s poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period in particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare s original contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how he explores a wide range of concerns and preoccupations which are central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics, including fancy , the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, poesy , and a love lyric marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere expression. At the heart of this book is the claim that the hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes, and abstract qualities of Clare s lyric poetry situate him firmly within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to one of the most fascinating eras of English literature.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XI,292pages)
ISBN: 9783319538594
Index Number: PN1010
CLC: I561.072
Contents: I Critical Contexts -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Reading Romantic Clare -- II Aesthetic Categories and Creative Faculties -- Chapter 3. Clare, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Poetics of Fancy -- Chapter 4. Romantic Spenserianism: Clare, Byron, and Sublime Time -- Chapter 5. As now I gaze : Forms of Visual Experience in Clare s Sonnets -- III Imaginative Participations -- Chapter 6. Rural Ruins: Clare, Wordsworth, and Southey -- Chapter 7. Childish Recollections : From Lamb to Byron and Clare -- Chapter 8. Clare, Keats, Poesy, and Joy -- IV The Love Lyric -- Chapter 9. Clare and Burns -- V Conclusion -- Chapter 10. Clarean Formations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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