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Bate, Jonathan
by John Clare: A Biography
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0374179905
- ISBN 13
- 9780374179908
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About This Item
New York. 2003. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374179905. 650 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Quemadura. Jacket art: John Clare (detail), by William Hilton (1766-1839). keywords: Biography England Poetry Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-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 agricultural labourer, his burgeoning promise as a writer--cultivated under the gaze of rival patrons--then his moment of fame in the company of John Keats and the toast of literary London, and finally his decline into mental illness and his last years confined in asylums. Clare's ringing voice--quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous--emerges in generous quotation from his letters, journals, autobiographical writings, and his poems, as Jonathan Bate, the celebrated scholar of Shakespeare, brings the complex man, his beloved work, and his ribald world vividly to life. inventory #43127 ISBN: 0374179905.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43127
- Title
- Bate, Jonathan
- Author
- John Clare: A Biography
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374179905
- ISBN 13
- 9780374179908
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2003-11
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