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By HimselfJohn ClareEdited by Eric Robinson
Categories: 19th Century
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. May 2013) 9781847775788 £18.95 £17.05 Paperback (364 pages) (Pub. Jul 1998) 9781857542882 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
John Clare was a defining voice of the rural poetic tradition. His story was first set down more than two centuries ago and has captured the imagination of the reading public ever since. it is told most vividly and poignantly in Clare's own words.
This volume brings together, in definitive form, all Clare's important autobiographical writing. His Journal is set alongside his Sketches and 'Autobiographical Fragments' as well as his famous 'Journey out of Essex'. Maps of Clare's countryside are also included, as are his will and extracts from his asylum letters. Clare appears here as ploughboy, gardener's boy and militiaman; as lover and husband, acquaintance of Hazlitt, Lamb and Coleridge and finally, as inmate in an asylum: his manifold personas emerge with great freshness from this remarkable book. Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell with wood engravings by John Lawrence
Introduction
Sketches in the Life of John Clare More Hints in the Life etc Autobiographical Fragments Appendix: Clare's Notes for his Autobiography John Clare's Journal Some Brief Observations Memorandums Clare's Will and Related Observations Business Dealings with Edward Drury and John Taylor The Will o Whisp or Jack a Lanthorn A Remarkable Dream 'Closes of greensward...' Journey out of Essex Asylum Observations Letter to Matthew Allen, c.27 August 1841 Self Identity Autumn Letters and Notes of the Northampton Period Notes Glossary Index Maps Clare's Countryside Journey out of Essex
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