Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies

Simon Kӧvesi, Erin Lafford, Simon K?vesi, Erin Lafford, Simon K?vesi, Simon K?vesi, Simon K?vesi, Simon K?vesi, Simon K?vesi, Simon Kӧvesi

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9783030433734
• eBook ISBN: 9783030433741
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Clare's first volume of poetry, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the scholarship collected here both affirms Clare's importance as a major nineteenth-century poet and reveals how his verse continually provokes fresh areas of enquiry. Offering new archival, theoretical, and sometimes corrective insights into Clare's world and work, the essays in this volume cover a multitude of topics, including Clare's immersion in song and print culture, his formal ingenuity, his environmental and ecological imagination, his mental and physical health, and his experience of asylums. This book gives students a range of imaginative avenues into Clare's work, and offers both new readers and experienced Clare scholars a vital set of contributions to ongoing critical debates.

Index

A

Accuracy

Ackermann, Rudolf

‘Act to Amend the Law respecting the inclosing of Open Fields, Pastures, Moors, Commons and Waste Lands, in England,’

Adam, J. R.

‘Address to a Lark Singing in Winter,’

‘Address to Plenty in Winter: A Parody,’

‘Adventures of a Grass Hopper,’

Adversity

Aeolian harp

Aesthetics

Agency

Agricultural distress

Agricultural labour

Agricultural work

Aikin, John

Albernaz, Joseph

‘Ale,’

Alienation

Alienist

Allen, Matthew

Alliteration

Alliterative effects

Allusion

Almanac

America

Ampersand

Amulet, The

Anaphora

Anatomy of Melancholy, The

Ancient civilizations

Anecdotes

Animals

Anniversary: Or, Poetry and Prose for MDCCCXXIX, The

Annuals

‘Another with a Fine Melody Taken from My Fathers Singing,’

Anthropomorphism

Antipastoral

Antiquarianism

Antiquarian revival

Anti-reformist

Antithesis

Anxiety

‘April,’

Archaisms

Aristotle

Arne, Thomas

Arnold, S. J

Arnold, Thomas

Ars poetica

Artificiality

Artistic

Ashcroft, James Noble

Assemblage

Assonance

Asylum

Asylum magazines

Asylum writing

Athenaeum, The

Atmosphere

Atmospheric pressures

Attridge, Derek

‘August,’

‘Auld Lang Syne’ (Robert Burns)

Authenticity

‘Autobiographical Fragments,’

Autobiography

‘Autumn,’

‘Aye once again thou bird of many shores,’

B

Bachelard, Gaston

‘The Badger,’

Baker, Tant

Ballad

‘Ballad [A faithless shepherd courted me],’

‘Ballad [Fair maiden when my love began],’

Ballad metre

‘Ballad [On martinmass Eve the dogs they did bark],’

‘Ballad: Winter Winds,’

‘The Banks of Broomsgrove,’

Barham, Peter

Barnett, John

Barnum, P. T.

Barrell, John

Barrington, Daines

Bartlett, Peter

Barton, Bernard

Bate, Jonathan

Beattie, James

Beatty, Bernard

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell

Beechey, Sir William

Bees

Beethoven, Luwdig V...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Poetry’s Variety: John Clare and the Poetic Scene in the 1820s and 1830s
• ‘Sweet the Merry Bells Ring Round’: John Clare’s Songs for the Drawing Room
• ‘Sea Songs Love Ballads &c &c’: John Clare and Vernacular Song
• John Clare’s Landforms
• John Clare’s Ear: Metres and Rhythms
• John Clare’s The Shepherd’s Calendar and Forms of Repetition
• John Clare’s Dynamic Animals
• Multispecies Work in John Clare’s ‘Birds Nesting’ Poems
• Biosemiosis and Posthumanism in John Clare’s Multi-Centred Environments
• Common Distress: John Clare’s Poetic Strain
• ‘fancys or feelings’: John Clare’s Hypochondriac Poetics
• ‘A Song in the Night’: Reconsidering John Clare’s Later Asylum Poetry
• Back Matter