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John Clare: freedom & enclosure.(Books)(Book Review)
The life span of John Clare (1793-1864) runs from Pitt to Palmerston, Washington to Lincoln, Blake and Burns to Trollope and Tennyson; yet the essential features of his world were contained within a few square miles clustered around his birthplace, Helpston, Northamptonshire, in the east of England, a village containing about sixty families. Clare never went as far east as Cambridge or further north than Boston, Lincolnshire, the latter affording him his one view of the sea; he became nervous if he moved more than two or three miles away from Helpston. His four trips to London might as well have been visits to Mars, and he was regarded by the inhabitants of the city much ...
- The "community" of John Clare's Helpston.
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Houghton, Sarah September 22, 2006 700+ words
John Clare's isolation is often remarked...those communities: the Helpston village environment in which...social side of Clare's Helpston community, and identifying...I am concerned with the Helpston community to which Clare...
- The forgotten; Literary biography.(John Clare: A Biography)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 11, 2003 700+ words
JOHN CLARE, peasant poet of rural Northamptonshire...idealised his native village, Helpston, its local customs, bird...And in Jonathan Bate, John Clare has found a scrupulous and sensitive biographer. John Clare: A Biography. By Jonathan...
- Hybridity, mimicry and John Clare's Child Harold.
- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle Harrison, Gary June 22, 2003 700+ words
...two recent essays, I have argued that John Clare's poetry presents a poetics of displacement...work from the earliest poems, such as "Helpston" and "The Wish," to the asylum poems...disorientation from the enclosure of Helpston after 1809; from the demise of rural...
- John Clare: "searching for blackberries".(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle Robinson, Eric September 22, 2007 700+ words
Blackberrying may appear to be a trivial subject in John Clare's poetry, generally referred to in passing as a characteristic...Montmorency and Chantilly, of Compiegne and Retz. In Helpston, too, "it was highly dangerous, to say the least of...
- Honoring John Clare; The "peasant poet" was more than a prodigy.(BOOKS)(ON...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 7, 2003 700+ words
Byline: Amanda Kolson Hurley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES When John Clare (1793-1864) visited London in the spring of 1820, he...John Keats. Clare then returned home to the rural village of Helpston. Home was a four-room tenement cottage he shared with his...
- John Clare: A Biography.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle O'Neill, Michael September 22, 2004 700+ words
Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography (New York: Farrar...I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux...218. $17.00. Published in UK as John Clare, Selected Poems (Faber and Faber...
- Introduction: new directions in John Clare studies.
- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle McKusick, James C. June 22, 2003 700+ words
The John Clare Conference, organized by the John Clare Society of North America, March 21-22, 2003, was held...celebrated the completion of the Oxford English Text edition of John Clare's poetry. This rich feast of social and cultural activities...
- The promiscuity of print: John Clare's "Don Juan" and the culture of Romantic...
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Goldsmith, Jason N. September 22, 2006 700+ words
...waned & left me like a fallen star. --John Clare (2) In 1840, John Clare was written off for dead. Not figuratively...at the Lunatic Asylum at York." (3) Only John Clare had not died. He was very much alive, a resident...