Selected Letters
by
John Clare
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198185855
ISBN-13
9780198185857
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 29th, 1988
Print length
284 Pages
Weight
476 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.40 x 2.00 cms
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This selection, drawn from Mark Storey's complete Oxford edition of the "Letters", covers the whole of Clare's adult life until a few years before his death in 1864. Preserving Clare's idiosyncrasies of spelling and punctuation, this book also provides biographical information about the poet.
More than a century after his death, John Clare is being recognized as a poet of importance and stature. Yet in his own day he was at best a marginal figure, briefly celebrated as a ''Peasant Poet'' before declining into neglect and long years of decay in a Northampton asylum. His letters, drawn from the whole of his adult life until a few years before his death, provide a fascinating and frequently moving insight into his work and thoughts, charting his progress from youthful enthusiasm to poignant decline.Drawn from Mark Storey''s complete Oxford edition of the Letters (1986), this edition preserves all Clare''s idiosyncrasies of spelling and punctuation. The letters are fully annotated, and the book includes brief biographies of the major correspondents, and a chronology of Clare''s life.
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