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John Clare A Biography
by Bate, Jonathan
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- Comments: Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Small tear to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. <br> John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest laboring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive literary biography. Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work: his birth in poverty, his work as an a
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- ISBN-13: 9780374179908
- ISBN: 0374179905
- Edition: 1
- Publication Date: 2003
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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"[L]et us be grateful for the poems..., and for a biography which should do much to restore the poet to his proper place. Clare is not only a great English writer, but a profoundly sympathetic spirit, whose real engagement with the natural world went far beyond the sentimental rusticities of his time. He deserves to be loved.Bate, Jonathan is the author of 'John Clare A Biography', published 2003 under ISBN 9780374179908 and ISBN 0374179905.
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