John Clare: Selected Poems

by John Clare

Book Overview

Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of the labourer's life, the wheatfields and hedgerows of his village in Northamptonshire.
This authoritative and engaging selection includes poems from every stage of Clare's poetic career, organised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014043724X
• ISBN13: 9780140437249
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12

Customer Reviews

Beautiful, glorious

Clare is a true poet, and strangely neglected currently it seems. Really he is one of the essential poets of the wonderful romantic era which includes Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, and Keats. Why is this just about the only book of his work being published? I think you're lucky to find this one, and you can find many poems of his on the web to see yourself. Cheers