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Publication
Penguin Classics (2000), Paperback, 400 pages
Description
Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of the labourer's life, the wheatfields and hedgerows of his village in Northamptonshire. This authoritative and engaging selection includes poems from every stage of Clare's poetic career, organised by theme, from 'Birds and Beasts' to 'Madhouses, Prisons and Whorehouses'.
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LibraryThing member PollyMoore3
Another “green” and prophetic poet, crying out to us to stop taming and destroying nature. Favourites: “All nature has a feeling”, which is inexplicably missing from this edition, as is my other favourite, “Glad Christmas Comes” which I traced online however.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
400 p.; 7.72 inches
ISBN
014043724X / 9780140437249