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"John Clare (1793-1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world. Born into a rural laboring family, he felt connected to two communities: his native village and the Romantic and earlier poets who inspired him. The first part of this study of Clare and community shows how Clare absorbed and responded to his reading of a selection of poets including Chatterton, Bloomfield, Gray and Keats, revealing just how serious the process of self-education was to his development. The second part shows how he combined this reading with the oral folk-culture he was steeped in, to create an unrivaled poetic record of a rural culture during the period of enclosure, and the painful transition to the modern world. In his lifelong engagement with rural and literary life, Clare understood the limitations as well as the strengths in communities, the pleasures as well as the horrors of isolation." "This book considers some of the ways in which John Clare perceived and represented two communities, that of his native village, whose cul- ture, ecology and natural environment it was his life’s principal work to record in poetry, and the community of poets who inspired him and gave h

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Author

John Goodridge

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107566538

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13