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A Champion for the PoorPolitical Verse and ProseJohn ClareEdited by Eric Robinson![]() 10% off
Categories: 19th Century, British
Imprint: FyfieldBooks Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (220 pages) 9781857544237 £18.99 £17.09
Every discontented man who is not poor
declares the poor peasants' lot to be the happiest in the world & the hardest labour as the best exercise for health - yet he himself would sooner chuse any lot then that of a poor man & any labour but that of hard work.
A Champion for the Poor brings together for the first time John Clare's longest poem, The Parish - in a new and corrected text - and his forceful satires 'The Hue & Cry' and 'The Summons'. Some previously unpublished poems are included, too. There are also essays, letters and fragments - advice to his children, reflections on Enclosure, observations of social custom and social ill - which illuminate the poems and enhance our sense of Clare and his attitudes to the political and social conditions and events of his age.
The Introduction evokes the context of Clare's writings and the difficulties he faced as a labourer voicing the concerns of his class at a time when such matters were regarded as the exclusive province of the educated and propertied classes. Notes and a glossary of unfamiliar words are included. Readers can at last assess a neglected aspect of Clare's work.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction by Eric Robinson Note on the text Note on Cruikshank List of illustrations POEMS (titles in square brackets are provided by the editors) Helpstone (1809-13) (EP, I.146-63) Waterloo (1815) (EP, I.208-11) On seeing a Lost Greyhound in winter (EP, I.202) Elegy...In the Ruins of Pickworth Rutland (1818) (EP, I.402-4) [Labour and Luxury] (1818?) (EP, I.505) Lobin Clouts Satirical Sollilouquy on the Times (1808-19) (EP, I137-8) [One monday morning sour & loath] (1808-19) (EP, I.352) [O thrice lucky town (the more lucky poor creatu'rs)] (1808-19) (EP, I.332-3) [O freedom freedom sacred name] (1819-19) (EP, I.352) The Lamentations of Round-Oak Waters (1818) (EP,I.228-34) A Familiar Epistle to a Friend (1819) (EP,I.142-7) Helpston Green (EP,II.11-14) The Village Minstrel, lines 924-1281 (Oct. 1819-Jan. 1820) (EP.II.162-77) England (April 1820) (EP,II.69-71) Langley Bush (1819-20) (EP,II.250) The Mores (MP,II.347-50) The Parish (1822-28) (EP,II.697-779) Death (1825) (MP,III.318-22) Greece (1825) (MP,IV.478-81) The Gipseys Song (Feb.-Sept.1825) (MP,IV.52-6) The Poachers(MP,IV.378-9) Ballad: Boys bring the booty from the cave (?1826) (MP,IV.395-7) Robin Hood and the Gamekeepers (?1826) (MP,IV.422-30) [Honesty though kings revile thee] (after 1826) (MP,II.229-31) On seeing a skull on Cowper Green (1828) (MP,III.196-202) Nelson & the Nile (Aug. 1828) (MP,IV.100-4) The Cottager (1828-30) (MP,III.414-18) The Monarchy of Nature (MP,IV.288) Honesty (?1830) (MP,IV.216-7) The Summons (Aug.-Sept. 1829) ((MP,IV.482-93) Triumphs of Time (Aug. 1829) (MP,IV.494-505) Just like the lion in alarms (early 1830) (MP,II.339-41) Och by jasus hes a irish lad (early 1830) (MP,II.156-7) 1830 (March 1830) (MP,IV.506-7) [George 4th Death] (1830) (MP,II.330-1) The Blues & the Sailors (July 1830) (MP,II.337-9) Familiar Epistle to a Friend (Dec. 1830) (MP,IV.508-17) The Hue & Cry (Dec. 1830-Jan. 1831) (MP,IV.518-43) The Fallen Elm (Feb. 1831) (MP,III.440-3) The reformers hymm (EP,II.593-6) [Up honesty a vote of thanks] (1830-) (Pet. MS A59, pp13-16) [Thou poverty when past thy help] (1830-) (Pet. MS A59, p.16) [Good morning to ye honest swain] (1830-) (Pet. MS A59, pp17-23) [King William ye'r an honest man] (1830-) (Pet. MS A59, pp.23,27,47,48,56,49) [The Lament of Swordy Well] (1830-) (Pet. MS A59,pp.24-8) [Thou king of half a score dominions] (1830-) (Pet. MS A59,pp.56-7) [Address to an old Halfpenny] (MP.152-5) [Bless thy old fashioned copper face] (MP,II.328-30) Don Juan (1841) (LP,I.89-101) London versus Epping Forest (1840-41) (LP,I.28) [Land of perpetual summer Italy] (1845) (LP,I.163) To Liberty (9 July 1844) (LP,I.274-5) Love of Liberty (14 Feb, 1847) (LP,I.490-1) The Thistle (13 Feb. 1847) (LP,I.492-3) The Songs of our Land (LP,II.1000-1) Heres a health to Scotland (LP,II.1038-9) Notes to the Poems PROSE Apology for the Poor Essay on Political Religion The Bone & Cleaver Club [Advice to his children] Prose from Pet. MS A45 Miscellaneous notes and fragments Notes to the Prose SELECTIONS FROM THE LETTERS Notes to the Letters APPENDIX GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
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