John Clare by Himself

John Clare by Himself PDF Author: John Clare
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415942348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

John Clare by Himself

John Clare by Himself PDF Author: John Clare
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415942348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"I Am"

Author: John Clare
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528691
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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John Clare in Context

John Clare in Context PDF Author: Geoffrey Summerfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521445474
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Critics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.

Edge of the Orison

Edge of the Orison PDF Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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The story goes that in 1841, the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest and, heading towards his home in Northborough, covered eighty miles over three-and-a-half days. On foot and alone, he was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce a woman already three years dead In Iain Sinclair s hands, the bare facts of John Clare's story turn both strange and elliptical. Armed with curiosity and a sense that his work has from the first been haunted by Clare, Sinclair together with fellow diviners and other stragglers of the road sets out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness and to explore his own obsession with the poet. Keats, De Quincey, Blake, Pepys, Shelley, Joyce, Beckett, artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore along with Sinclair's wife Anna, who shares a connection with Clare are his fellow travellers on a journey that becomes an exercise in memory and erasure encompassing parents, grandparents and other ancestral ghosts. expression in Sinclair's deep-digging fiction of biography where memoir, history, travel, mystery and dreamstory combine in a magnificent eulogy to madness and to sanity along the borders of which may lie the poet's muse.

Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery

Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery PDF Author: John Clare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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John Clare

John Clare PDF Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374179908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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John Clare (1793-1864) was the greatest labor-class poet that England ever produced. Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work, his birth in poverty, his work as a laborer, his promise as a writer, then his moment of fame in the company of John Keats and the toast of literary London.

Reading with John Clare

Reading with John Clare PDF Author: Sara Guyer
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823265595
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Reading with John Clare argues that at the heart of contemporary biopolitical thinking is an insistent repression of poetry. By returning to the moment at which biopolitics is said to emerge simultaneously with romanticism, this project renews our understanding of the operations of contemporary politics and its relation to aesthetics across two centuries. Guyer focuses on a single, exemplary case: the poetry and autobiographical writing of the British poet John Clare (1793–1864). Reading Clare in combination with contemporary theories of biopolitics, Guyer reinterprets romanticism’s political legacies, specifically the belief that romanticism is a direct precursor to the violent nationalisms and redemptive environmentalisms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Guyer offers an alternative account of many of romanticism’s foundational concepts, like home, genius, creativity, and organicism. She shows that contemporary critical theories of biopolitics, despite repeatedly dismissing the aesthetic or poetic dimensions of power as a culpable ideology, emerge within the same rhetorical tradition as the romanticism they denounce. The book thus compels a rethinking of the biopolitical critique of poetry and an attendant reconsideration of romanticism and its concepts.

Major Works

Major Works PDF Author: John Keats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Classical Rome

Classical Rome PDF Author: John D. Clare
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780152005139
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the highly successful campaigns of the Roman republican army, the early struggles for control of the empire, and the rule of the Emperor Augustus to the challenges of governing the provinces, this book chronicles the establishment, administration and the collapse of the Roman Empire.

The Soul of Rock & Roll: Poems Acoustic; Electric & Remixed; 1980-2020

The Soul of Rock & Roll: Poems Acoustic; Electric & Remixed; 1980-2020 PDF Author: John Repp
Publisher: Broadstone Books
ISBN: 9781937968847
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Poetry. If one goes Googling John Repp; one soon learns that he is a native of the Pine Barrens region of New Jersey (a location that often appears in his work); but has since lived many places; attended many universities (picking up an MFA along the way); has worked at seemingly every sort of job from gravedigging to teaching creative writing (so at least some of them useful); and has an eclectic and eccentric list of interests. And that he has; over the past forty years; written many books of poetry and prose; garnering awards and critical recognition along the way. All of which finds its way into THE SOUL OF ROCK & ROLL; which serves as a âeoegreatest hitsâe selection from those four decades of poetry. Such an outsized life has yielded a commensurately wide-ranging body of work; and any attempt to gist it in few words would do it poor service; but a good point of entry is "The Tiny-Montgomery-Mother-Poem" in which Dylan's The Basement Tapes plays in the background while Repp's mother is dying; and his family rails at him for speaking of such things: "They say These things are private. Why do you keep / making these private things public? It's so long ago." Yes; he writes of private things; and of things from long ago; from a time of innocence and the rush to lose it; documenting not merely his life but that of his generation; a generation for which rock & roll provided the soundtrack and the thrum sounding throughout these pages; love and loss amid the worn crackle and hiss. It may be true; as William Carlos Williams observed; that it is hard to get news from poetry; but it's a good source of history; of understanding how we arrived where we are. Repp reports in one poem here that he learned of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in part from a Robert Pinsky poem. Now it is his turn to educate us; to share the lessons from his life and times. Not all may be the sort of things that people die for want of knowing (to complete the Williams quotation); but they can be comforting--and what a needful thing that is for these times. "Who doesn't climb from the mere world" he asks in "Ovaltine"--with the emphasis on mere; lest we take our lives too seriously; reminding us to dream--"to where Ponce de Leon and Wyatt Earp rein their horses / while you spur Silver to column's head? The wind hits you first; / wind unheard before that; nothing ahead but fire and new mountains."