John Clare (1) (1793–1864)
Autore di John Clare / edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell
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Fonte dell'immagine: Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
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Opere di John Clare
Careless Rambles by John Clare: A Selection of His Poems Chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt (2012) 12 copie
Selected poems of John Clare 2 copie
John Clare: v.4: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837 (Oxford English Texts) (Vol 4) (1998) 2 copie
Poemes et proses de la folie de John Clare. Suivi de La psychose de John Clare par Jean Franchette (1969) 2 copie
Idle fame 1 copia
Little Trotty Wagtail 1 copia
Kilvickeon 1 copia
The Early Poems of John Clare 1804-1822: Volume II: v. 2 (Oxford English Texts) by John Clare (1989-04-13) (1815) 1 copia
Hidden Treasures 1 copia
JOHN CLARE COMPLETE WORKS ULTIMATE COLLECTION - All Poems, Love Poetry, Ballads, Songs, Odes, PLUS BIOGRAPHY and RARE… (2013) 1 copia
john clare poems 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Collaboratore — 1,048 copie
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Collaboratore — 250 copie
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
La poesía inglesa románticos y victorianos — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1793-07-13
- Data di morte
- 1864-05-20
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St Botolph’s churchyard, Helpston, Northamtonshire, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England, UK
Great Britain (birth)
UK (death) - Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Helpston, Northamptonshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, Northampton, Northhamptonshire, England, UK (now St. Andrew's Hospital)
- Luogo di residenza
- Helpston, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Northborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Loughton, Essex, England, UK
High Beach asylum, Loughton, Essex, England, UK
Northampton, Northhamptonshire, England, UK
General Lunatic Asylum, Northampton, Northhamptonshire, England, UK (now St. Andrew's Hospital) - Istruzione
- Glinton Church, Glinton, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
self-educated - Attività lavorative
- poet
farm hand
pot-boy (Blue Bell public house)
soldier
lime burner
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Discussioni
Anyone owns a copy of "Bird Poems" by John Clare published by FS and would like to share some photos in Folio Society Devotees (Ottobre 2022)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 82
- Opere correlate
- 19
- Utenti
- 1,124
- Popolarità
- #22,857
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 16
- ISBN
- 174
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 3
Clare's lack of punctuation and capitalization also tires one a few poems in. Sure, it's easy to get used to it and figure sentence and clause breaks, for the most part, on the fly, but it's more work than one really wants from poetry, or rather not the *sort* of work one wants. Think of it like reading Spenser (or whomever you like) without the spelling modernized or even reading Middle English: it's that much work without any of the fun.
The poems are full of repeated thoughts and lines, and one would be forgiven for never reading another line of Clare the first time he uses one of his favorite words, "pooty," for "snail." I'm not sure which is worse between that and "diaper" used by Herrick to mean "with an interlacing pattern."
When Clare's poems are about natural objects, they are interesting enough taken in small portions. Interest rises when Clare writes about himself and/or love. Sadly, the poems with love as their subject are almost exclusively from the period of Clare's madness, as are his only satirical pieces (included in this selection, anyway), an attempt at "Childe Harold" and "Don Juan." One hesitates to say that a man is more interesting when mad, but it seems to be the case with Clare.
I can't say I'm sad to be done with this book. Perhaps a smaller selection would have been wiser, but I have wanted to read Clare for some time, and I have a thing about getting all or most of a poet's works in one volume when possible. I see that the Penguin edition has considerably fewer poems than this Oxford World Classics, but it doesn't seem to have added punctuation either.
I don't think I'll ever read another poem about a bird's nest again.… (altro)