John Clare's Romanticism

by Adam White

Book Overview

This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare's poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare's knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare's poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period - in particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare's original...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319538586
• ISBN13: 9783319538587
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"