Overview
Puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with the poetry of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries
Examines Clare alongside key Romantic figures such as Byron, Wordsworth and Keats
Makes fully evident Clare’s original but as yet still neglected contribution to the aesthetic and poetic culture of the age
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Critical Contexts
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Aesthetic Categories and Creative Faculties
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Imaginative Participations
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The Love Lyric
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Conclusion
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About this book
This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period – in particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare’s original contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how he explores a wide range of concerns and preoccupations which are central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics, including ‘fancy’, the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, ‘poesy’, and a love lyric marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere expression. At the heart of this book is the claim that the hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes, and abstract qualities of Clare’s lyric poetry situate him firmly within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to one of the most fascinating eras of English literature.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Adam White is an Editor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University, UK. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Manchester, UK and taught there for a number of years. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has published widely on Romantic-period writing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: John Clare's Romanticism
Authors: Adam White
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53859-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53858-7Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85259-1Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53859-4Published: 19 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 332
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature