John Clare - Hardcover

Bate, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330371061 ISBN 13: 9780330371063

Verlag: Picador, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

xix 648p hardback with illustrated dustjacket, a few light pencil marks, otherwise as new, first edition, signed by the autor

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'Exemplary... wonderfully written and diverse' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'Splendidly readable... a shrewd, nimbly written book, one of the few of its subject that will be read and enjoyed off campus' Terry Eagleton, Independent

Reseña del editor:

`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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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0330371061
• ISBN 13: 9780330371063
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 640