Adam White: John Clare's Romanticism, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare s poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period in particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare s original contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how he explores a wide range of concerns and preoccupations which are central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics, including fancy , the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, poesy , and a love lyric marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere expression. At the heart of this book is the claim that the hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes, and abstract qualities of Clare s lyricpoetry situate him firmly within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to one of the most fascinating eras of English literature.