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John Clare (Paperback)
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John Clare (Paperback)
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'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.
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