John Clare and Community

ISBN: 9781107566538 出版年：2012 页码：274 John Goodridge Cambridge University Press

Introduction: Clare and community Part I. Brother Bards and Fellow Labourers: 1. Great expectations: Clare, Chatterton and becoming a poet 2. 'Three cheers for mute ingloriousness!': Clare and eighteenth-century poetry 3. Junkets and Clarissimus: the Clare-Keats dialogue 4. 'Neighbour John': Bloomfield, companionship and isolation Part II. Representing Rural Life: 5. Enclosure and the poetry of protest 6. The bird's nest poems, protection and violation 7. Festive ritual and folk narrative 8. Storytellings: 'old womens memorys' Conclusion: community and solitude Works consulted Index.