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I see that the Penguin edition has considerably fewer poems than this Oxford World Classics, but it doesn't seem to have added punctuation either. I don't think I'll ever read another poem about a bird's nest again.

The Thrush's Nest

Dec 03, Lytle added it. An endless landscape of morts, glebs and teasels where you can soodle and elt at your leisure with neither the normative universalizing of observed detail nor that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons. What a beautiful mind! Ian rated it really liked it Jan 17, Maddie Reay rated it really liked it Jan 09, Rui Miguel Mesquita rated it really liked it Apr 01, Amanda rated it liked it Apr 27, Jon Frankel rated it it was amazing Aug 31, Danny rated it really liked it Jul 21, Rebecca Stimpson rated it it was amazing Feb 16, Dr Peter Kalve rated it it was amazing Jul 26, Emily Bury rated it liked it Jan 29, Jeff rated it it was amazing Nov 06, Matthew rated it really liked it May 21, Luke Revel-Burroughes rated it it was amazing Aug 03, David rated it it was amazing Mar 26, Rebecca rated it it was amazing Jan 24, Brian Robbins rated it it was amazing Aug 22, Jenny rated it really liked it Aug 05, Emily rated it really liked it May 16, Lily rated it it was amazing Feb 06, Hale rated it really liked it Jan 12, Julia Moir rated it it was amazing Sep 10, Alex rated it it was amazing Jan 23, Claire Jones rated it really liked it Nov 22, Keith Dunlap rated it really liked it May 08, Elizabeth Branigin rated it it was amazing Aug 12, But the extraordinary range of his poetical gifts has restored him to the company of contemporaries like Lord Byron, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.


  1. TO SIR, WITH LOVE - PART TWO.
  2. Major Works?
  3. John Clare - John Clare Poems - Poem Hunter.

This authoritative edition brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters and illustrates all aspects of his talent. It contains poems from all stages of his career, including love poetry and bird and nature poems.


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  • Written in his native Northamptonshire, Clare's work provides a fascinating reflection of rural society, often underscored by his own sense of isolation and despair. Clare's writings are presented with the minimum of editorial interference, and with a new introduction by the poet and scholar Tom Paulin.

    English poet John Clare (1793-1864) In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg

    For over years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

    His "bird's nest poems", it can be argued, illustrate the self-awareness, and obsession with the creative process that captivated the romantics.

    John Clare Poems - Poems of John Clare - Poem Hunter

    Clare was the most influential poet, apart from Wordsworth , to write in an older style. In a foreword to the anthology The Poetry of Birds , broadcaster and bird-watcher Tim Dee notes that Clare wrote about species of British wild birds "without any technical kit whatsoever. The only Clare essay published anonymously , in his lifetime was "Popularity of Authorship", a document of his predicament in Clare was relatively forgotten during the later 19th century, but interest in his work was revived by Arthur Symons in , Edmund Blunden in and John and Anne Tibble in their ground-breaking two-volume edition, while in Geoffrey Grigson edited Poems of John Clare's Madness published by Routledge and Kegan Paul.

    Copyright to much of his work has been claimed since by the editor of the Complete Poetry , [24] Professor Eric Robinson, although these claims were contested.

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    Recent publishers have refused to acknowledge the claim especially in recent editions from Faber and Carcanet and it seems the copyright is now defunct. The largest collection of original Clare manuscripts is housed at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery , where items are available to view by appointment.

    Altering what Clare actually wrote continued into the later 20th century; for instance, Helen Gardner amended not only the punctuation but also the spelling and grammar in the New Oxford Book of English Verse — , which she edited. In the scholar Jonathan Bate published the first major critical biography of the poet.

    This has helped to maintain the revival in popular and academic interest in the poet. The thatched cottage where Clare was born was bought by the John Clare Trust in The Cottage at 12 Woodgate, Helpston, has been restored using traditional building methods and is open to the public. In the John Clare Trust received a further grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help preserve the building and provide educational activities for youngsters visiting the cottage.

    Major Works

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the author and journalist, see John Clare journalist. For the American soccer coach, see John Clare soccer. John Clare by William Hilton , oil on canvas, Selected Poems , Penguin Books, , pp.

    Poems by John Clare

    A biography ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux. John Clare and botanising". Retrieved 22 July Retrieved 27 February Retrieved 24 April Retrieved 12 September Rutland and Stamford Mercury. Retrieved 15 August See Storey, Edward, ed. The Letters of John Clare. The History of English Literature. Retrieved 12 July A Biography by Jonathan Bate". Retrieved 26 January Retrieved 24 April — via Google Books.

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