Cottage Tales

Clare, John : Edited by Robinson, Eric; Powell; Dawson, P. M. S.

ISBN 10: 1857540328 / ISBN 13: 9781857540321

Edité par The Mid Northumberland Arts Group Carcanet Press, Ashington and Manchester, 1993

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First printing of this edition not published in hardback. A firm, clean copy with a small crease to the bottom right hand corner of the top cover.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Cottage Tales
• Éditeur: The Mid Northumberland Arts Group Carcanet Press, Ashington and Manchester
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1857540328
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781857540321
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket as issued

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Synopsis

The first literary experiences of John Clare (1793-1864) included the tales handed down by word of mouth in his native village, and as a mature poet he reworked them in his narrative verse. This edition, published for Clare's bicentenary, comprises the tales he wished to include in his third collection, "The Shepherd's Calendar" (1827), and previously unpublished poems which show the range of his narrative achievement. The detailed introduction traces the composition of the poems. Clare's own description of local customs, his previously unpublished draft essay on English pastoral poetry, and a full glossary are included. Clare's original spelling and punctuation are preserved.

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.