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I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare

I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare - Paperback

by John Clare
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Availability:In StockContributor:John Clare, Jonathan BatePublish date:2003-11-15Pages:318
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374528690ISBN-10:374528691UPC:9780374528690Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SC84JR163V

Hail, humble Helpstone ...
Where dawning genius never met the day,
Where useless ignorance slumbers life away
Unknown nor heeded, where low genius tries
Above the vulgar and the vain to rise.
--from "Helpstone"

"I Am" The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of the great "peasant poet"'s remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers for two centuries: the tender chronicler of nature and childhood; the champion of folkways in the face of oppression; the passionate, sweet-tongued love-poet; and the lonely visionary confined, in old age and senility, to asylums.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374528690ISBN-10:374528691UPC:9780374528690Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SC84JR163V

John Clare (1793-1864) lived all his life in rural Northamptonshire. He is widely celebrated as one of England's great nature and folklife writers.

Jonathan Bate is the author of Shakespeare and Ovid (1993) and The Genius of Shakespeare (1997). He is Leverhulme Research Professor and King Alfred Professor of English at the University of Warwick.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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John Clare, Jonathan Bate

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John Clare

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