George Crabbe and John Clare: Refinement and Reading

Romanticism ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Thomas Williams
Keyword(s):  
John Clare ◽  
George Crabbe

John Clare

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Kövesi
Keyword(s):  
John Clare

Sara Guyer, Reading with John Clare: Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism

Romanticism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Robert Heyes
Keyword(s):  
John Clare

The Life of Rural Scenery

Romanticism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-201
Author(s):  
Paul Chirico
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
John Clare ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
The Moment

John Clare observed and described the natural world with an unsurpassed accuracy and intimacy. But his landscapes also bore the memories of life and labour. Like Wordsworth, he sought to create textual objects in transmissible forms, to deliver their reported worlds – expansive, dynamic, somehow inhabitable – to distant readers, drawing them into sympathetic intercommunion with a complex living scene. His intimate descriptive poetry reveals the tangible qualities of light and sound, and the material basis of the apparently abstract concept of time. Memory and imagination are understood to inhabit bodily spaces, provoking ‘real transport’: an observer lost in – and to – the moment. From his place and time, Clare felt solidarity with isolated birds, alienation from labour, estrangement from human communities. Publications such as annuals often showcased formulaic reflections on nature and on memory; Clare exploited textual duplicability, his meditative descriptive poetry spanning the history and futurity of an observed scene.

Madness Writing Poetry/ Poetry Writing Madness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Percy Bysshe Shelley ◽  
John Keats ◽  
William Blake ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
The Public ◽  
John Clare ◽  
Romantic Poetry

The final chapter returns to the scene of Romantic poetry, looking at poetry by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Clare. It reads these Romantic texts as poised articulations of the idea of poetic madness, and discusses generally how these writers contributed to, or interwove with their own lives and works, new and rediscovered mythologies of madness, sometimes anticipating or resisting the public images created by journalism, criticism, or biography, previously described. Finally, the Romantic mad poet is considered in relation to criticism and the canonical role of Romanticism in English literature.

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