Research Catalog

Title

Careless rambles : a selection of his poems / by John Clare; chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt; with a foreword by Robert Hass.

Author

Clare, John, 1793-1864

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : Counterpoint ; 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hass, Robert
• Pohrt, Tom.

Description

xxv, 79 p. : col. ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Born in 1793, John Clare lived and worked during the Golden Age of British poetry, the time of Shelley, Byron, Keats, and Coleridge. In the grand tradition of English nature writing, he stands alongside Wordsworth as a poet of extraordinary humanity and great spirit. Clare was 18 years old when the first Luddite riots occurred. He was deeply resistant to the first years of England's Enclosure, and he offers a contemporaneous look at what the world was like for those struggling with the impact of the first Industrial Revolution. Uneducated but remarkably well read, Clare was briefly celebrated in London, only to spend his final years in a lunatic asylum. He died in one on May 20, 1864, almost exactly one year before William Butler Yeats was born and the world set out on the path to Modernism."--Publisher's website.

Subject

English poetry > 19th century

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781582437859
• 1582437858

OCLC

793658324

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library