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The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#348667-VD29
Titel	The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare
Auteur	Barrell, John
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1972
ISBN10	0521082544
ISBN13	9780521082549
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, few illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	It is generally agreed that in the early eighteenth century people began to be interested in landscape as something to have a 'taste' for; that they saw landscape through the eyes of the great painters, and that later pictures, poetry and landscape gardening all reflect that taste. Dr Barrell examines this interest, showing how the taste for landscape affected the poetry in detail. John Clare, who lived most of his life in rural Northamptonshire, whose landscape was being transformed by enclosure, is then taken as the focus of these different attitudes. Clare's truthfulness to the individual locality he wanted to describe would not permit him to use the conventional literary language of his predecessors, and he had instead to find his own language. His success in doing this removed him fro... (Lees verder)m mainstream English poetry. This 1972 text brings 'taste' into contact with the social and economic bases of life.
Pagina's	244
Conditie	Goed — Edges dust jacket slightly worn; price dust jacket clipped; small old price sticker front flap dust jacket.
Prijs	€ 45,00

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