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New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community
Door Simon Kövesi e.a.
Categorie | Secundair |
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Boeknummer | #347710-VA40 |
Titel | New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community |
Auteur | Kövesi, Simon & Scott McEathron |
Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
Uitgeverij | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
Jaar van uitgave | 2015 |
ISBN10 | 1107031117 |
ISBN13 | 9781107031111 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Original hardcover, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo. |
Samenvatting | John Clare (1793–1864) has long been recognized as one of England's foremost poets of nature, landscape and rural life. Scholars and general readers alike regard his tremendous creative output as a testament to a probing and powerful intellect. Clare was that rare amalgam ? a poet who wrote from a working-class, impoverished background, who was steeped in folk and ballad culture, and who yet, against all social expectations and prejudices, read and wrote himself into a grand literary tradition. All the while he maintained a determined sense of his own commitments to the poor, to natural history and to the local. Through the diverse approaches of ten scholars, this collection shows how Clare's many angles of critical vision illuminate current understandings of environmental ethics, ae... (Lees verder)sthetics, Romantic and Victorian literary history, and the nature of work. |
Pagina's | 244 |
Conditie | Goed — Small wrinkle top edge back dust jacket. |
Prijs | € 50,00 |
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