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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- 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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