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John Clare
John Clare
paperback
Published:
18 June, 2004
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Description
‘What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world’ Seamus Heaney
John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, Wordsworth or Shelley – and a life to match. The ‘poet’s poet’, he has a place in the national pantheon and, more tangibly, a plaque in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner, unveiled in 1989.
Here at last is Clare’s full story, from his birth in poverty and employment as an agricultural labourer, via his burgeoning promise as a writer – cultivated under the gaze of rival patrons – and moment of fame, in the company of John Keats, as the toast of literary London, to his final decline into mental illness and the last years of his life, confined in asylums. Clare’s ringing voice – quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous – emerges through extracts from his letters, journals, autobiographical writings and poems, as Jonathan Bate brings this complex man, his revered work and his ribald world, vividly to life.
Prizes
Winner of James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2004 (UK),Short-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize 2004 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780330371124 |
| ISBN10 | 0330371126 |
| Number Of Pages | 672 |
| Item Weight | 464 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 43 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Jonathan Bate Ýis the sanest, shrewdest scholar of Shakespeare at present. --James Wood, The Guardian
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Author's Bio
Jonathan Bate, born in 1958, is the author of The Genius of Shakespeare, Song of the Earth and a novel, The Cure for Love. He is the Leverhulme Research Professor of English at the University of Warwick and writes regularly for the Telegraph, the TLS and the Independent.