This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in an evolving Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge and admiration of a range of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, White puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with some of these figures – in particular Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. White makes fully evident Clare’s original but as yet still neglected contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how he explores a series of concerns which are central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics, including ‘fancy’, the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, poesy, and a love lyric that is marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere expression. At the heart of this book is White’s claim that the hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes, and abstract qualities of Clare’s lyric poetry resituates him within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to some key Romantic preoccupations.
- ISBN: 978-3-319-53858-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 07/06/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés