By Himself
Published on 1. May 2013
364 pages
978-1-84777-578-8 (ISBN)
Description
John Clare was a defining voice of the rural poetic tradition. His story was first set down more than two centuries ago and has captured the imagination of the reading public ever since. it is told most vividly and poignantly in Clare's own words.
This volume brings together, in definitive form, all Clare's important autobiographical writing. His Journal is set alongside his Sketches and 'Autobiographical Fragments' as well as his famous 'Journey out of Essex'. Maps of Clare's countryside are also included, as are his will and extracts from his asylum letters. Clare appears here as ploughboy, gardener's boy and militiaman; as lover and husband, acquaintance of Hazlitt, Lamb and Coleridge and finally, as inmate in an asylum: his manifold personas emerge with great freshness from this remarkable book.
Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell with wood engravings by John Lawrence
This volume brings together, in definitive form, all Clare's important autobiographical writing. His Journal is set alongside his Sketches and 'Autobiographical Fragments' as well as his famous 'Journey out of Essex'. Maps of Clare's countryside are also included, as are his will and extracts from his asylum letters. Clare appears here as ploughboy, gardener's boy and militiaman; as lover and husband, acquaintance of Hazlitt, Lamb and Coleridge and finally, as inmate in an asylum: his manifold personas emerge with great freshness from this remarkable book.
Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell with wood engravings by John Lawrence
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
6,04 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-578-8 (9781847775788)
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Persons
John Clare (1793-1864): Born the son of a thresher at Helpston, Northamptonshire, John Clare is a rural poet and story teller. He is a poet of spiritual originality, as compelling at his best as Crabbe and Wordsworth as a story teller in verse. He was an assiduous practitioner of the sonnet form at all periods of his poetic career. The sonnets he produced in the last few years before his institutionalisation in 1837, first at High Beech and then in Northampton General Asylum, are of particular interest, since he exploited the inherent brevity of the form to express a simultaneous precision of observation and starkness of vision that he rarely achieved either before or after.
Content
Introduction
Sketches in the Life of John Clare
More Hints in the Life etc
Autobiographical Fragments
Appendix: Clare's Notes for his Autobiography
John Clare's Journal
Some Brief Observations
Memorandums
Clare's Will and Related Observations
Business Dealings with Edward Drury and John Taylor
The Will o Whisp or Jack a Lanthorn
A Remarkable Dream
'Closes of greensward...'
Journey out of Essex
Asylum Observations
Letter to Matthew Allen, c.27 August 1841
Self Identity
Autumn
Letters and Notes of the Northampton Period
Notes
Glossary
Index
Maps
Clare's Countryside
Journey out of Essex
Sketches in the Life of John Clare
More Hints in the Life etc
Autobiographical Fragments
Appendix: Clare's Notes for his Autobiography
John Clare's Journal
Some Brief Observations
Memorandums
Clare's Will and Related Observations
Business Dealings with Edward Drury and John Taylor
The Will o Whisp or Jack a Lanthorn
A Remarkable Dream
'Closes of greensward...'
Journey out of Essex
Asylum Observations
Letter to Matthew Allen, c.27 August 1841
Self Identity
Autumn
Letters and Notes of the Northampton Period
Notes
Glossary
Index
Maps
Clare's Countryside
Journey out of Essex
