Selected Poems
Author: Clare, John
ISBN: 9780140437249
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 06 Apr 2000
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
Includes critical introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary
Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of the labourer's life, the wheatfields and hedgerows of his village in Northamptonshire.
This authoritative and engaging selection includes poems from every stage of Clare's poetic career, organised by theme, from 'Birds and Beasts' to 'Madhouses, Prisons and Whorehouses'.
ISBN: 9780140437249
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 06 Apr 2000
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
Includes critical introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary
Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of the labourer's life, the wheatfields and hedgerows of his village in Northamptonshire.
This authoritative and engaging selection includes poems from every stage of Clare's poetic career, organised by theme, from 'Birds and Beasts' to 'Madhouses, Prisons and Whorehouses'.
