Poems of the Middle Period: Volume I: 1822-1837 (Oxford English Texts: John Clare) - Hardcover

Clare, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019812340X ISBN 13: 9780198123408

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1996

Synopsis

Clare's The Shepherd's Calendar has become the classic poem of English rural life and ceremony. It was accompanied, when first published, by other poems, pastorals, and verse-tales, all of which appear in the first two volumes of the series, along with many others which were not collected in the 1827 collection. Clare's first editors also tidied up and standardized his vocabulary, grammar, and spelling, but his original language has here been restored. By the late 1820's, Clare had developed his own distinctive idiom and had adopted a more powerful voice. These volumes make an important contribution to the ongoing reassessment of Clare as a major English poet.

This is the first of five volumes devoted to Clare's "middle period," between 1822 and 1837, arguably the years of his finest creativity. These Poems of the Middle Period, which will complete the nine volume series of Clare's work, reveal the poet at his best.

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About the Author

John Clare (1793-1864) was an English poet, in his time commonly known as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", the son of a farm labourer, born at Helpston near Peterborough. Eric Robinson is at University of Massachusetts. David Powell is at Nene College, Northampton.

Review

"Kropp Dakubu is rich in historical data and ethnographic detail, with emphasis on the indigenous languages. A rich look at a fascinating country with a rich variety of old and new languages. Recommended. --The Carrier Pidgin

"A necessary purchase for libraries serving graduate programs in English, and desirable for larger libraries serving upper-level undergraduates, since many of these poems are otherwise unavailable."--Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 019812340X
• ISBN 13: 9780198123408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 406
• Editor: Robinson Eric, Powell David, Dawson Paul