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Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2004

by John Clare, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Summerfield

John Clare produced some of English poetry's most poignant and glorious lyrics. Writing not as an observer of nature but from an intimate knowledge of the wheatfields, hedgerows, and ditches of his village in Northamptonshire, he described animals, insects, trees, rivers, sunlight, and clouds with sublime sensitivity. But as enclosures and 'improvements' came in the early nineteenth century, dismembering the rural landscape, his later poems became infused with a sense of disorientation and loss, and scattered with threads of madness. Clare's genius has been rediscovered by fellow poets in every generation since his death, from Dylan Thomas to Ted Hughes to Seamus Heaney.


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John Clare produced some of English poetry’s most poignant and glorious lyrics. Writing not as an observer of nature but from an intimate knowledge of the wheatfields, hedgerows, and ditches of his village in Northamptonshire, he described animals, insects, trees, rivers, sunlight, and clouds with sublime sensitivity. But as enclosures and “improvements” came in the early nineteenth century, dismembering the rural landscape, his later poems became infused with a sense of disorientation and loss, and scattered with threads of madness. Clare’s genius has been rediscovered by fellow poets in every generation since his death, from Dylan Thomas to Ted Hughes to Seamus Heaney.

  • First time in Penguin Classics
  • Landmark edition based on Clare's original manuscripts
  • Includes introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary

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A selection that includes poems from various stages of Clare's poetic career, organised by theme, from Birds and Beasts to Madhouses, Prisons and Whorehouses.

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  • Title Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
  • Author John Clare, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Summerfield
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 400
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, London, England
  • Date August 3, 2004
  • ISBN 9780140437249

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[Clare] lived near the abyss but resolved extreme experience into something gentle. (Seamus Heaney)

About the author

John Clare (1793-1864) began writing verse at the age of 13 and had his first book of poems published in 1820. He suffered from severe bouts of melancholy and died in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum.

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