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Cottage tales
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- Book Synopsis
- This collection, published for John Clare's bicentenary, comprises the tales he wished to include in his third collection, "The Shepherd's Calendar" (1827), previously unpublished poems, Clare's own description of local customs and his draft essay on English pastoral poetry.
- About The Author
- John Clare (1793-1864): Born the son of a thresher at Helpston, Northamptonshire, John Clare is a rural poet and story teller. He is a poet of spiritual originality, as compelling at his best as Crabbe and Wordsworth as a story teller in verse. He was an assiduous practitioner of the sonnet form at all periods of his poetic career. The sonnets he produced in the last few years before his institutionalisation in 1837, first at High Beech and then in Northampton General Asylum, are of particular interest, since he exploited the inherent brevity of the form to express a simultaneous precision of observation and starkness of vision that he rarely achieved either before or after.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781857540321
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- FyfieldBooks, (22 July 1996)
- Number of Pages
- 159
- Weight
- 260 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 132 x 12 mm
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