The Midsummer Cushion - Couverture souple

Clare, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0856359408 ISBN 13 : 9780856359408

Editeur : Fyfield Books, 1996

Synopsis

Clare records that it was 'a very old custom among villagers in summer time to stick a piece of greensward full of field flowers and place it as an ornament in their cottages which ornaments are called Midsummer Cushions.' This 'cottage custom'suggested the title to him for this collection. The texts of the poems are those which Clare himself wanted to publish in 1832, but for which he could not find a sufficient number of subscribers. Almost a third of the book's 391 poems were published for the first time when this collection first appeared in 1978. These poems, edited by Anne Tibble, a Yorkshire-born scholar and biographer of John Clare, finally cement the poet's long-deserved reputation as our foremost naturalist poet of the English countryside.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Clare (1793-1864): Born the son of a thresher at Helpston, Northamptonshire, John Clare is a rural poet and story teller. He is a poet of spiritual originality, as compelling at his best as Crabbe and Wordsworth as a story teller in verse. He was an assiduous practitioner of the sonnet form at all periods of his poetic career. The sonnets he produced in the last few years before his institutionalisation in 1837, first at High Beech and then in Northampton General Asylum, are of particular interest, since he exploited the inherent brevity of the form to express a simultaneous precision of observation and starkness of vision that he rarely achieved either before or after.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fyfield Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0856359408
• ISBN 13: 9780856359408
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 529
• Éditeur: Tibble Anne
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