John Clare : A Biography.

Bate, J.

ISBN 10: 0330371061 / ISBN 13: 9780330371063

Editore: Picador, London, first edition, 2003, 2003

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Cloth, 8vo, xx pp, 33 ills plus others in text. Large scrape to rear pastedown endpaper, otherwise Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. Codice articolo ABE-56955

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Titolo: John Clare : A Biography.

Casa editrice: Picador, London, first edition, 2003

Data di pubblicazione: 2003

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

Edizione: prima edizione

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`What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world’ Seamus Heaney

John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, Wordsworth or Shelley – and a life to match. The `poet’s poet’, he has a place in the national pantheon and, more tangibly, a plaque in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner, unveiled in 1989.

Here at last is Clare’s full story, from his birth in poverty and employment as an agricultural labourer, via his burgeoning promise as a writer – cultivated under the gaze of rival patrons – and moment of fame, in the company of John Keats, as the toast of literary London, to his final decline into mental illness and the last years of his life, confined in asylums. Clare’s ringing voice – quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous – emerges through extracts from his letters, journals, autobiographical writings and poems, as Jonathan Bate brings this complex man, his revered work and his ribald world, vividly to life.

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xix 648p hardback with illustrated dustjacket, a few light pencil marks, otherwise as new, first edition, signed by the autor