John Clare (Writers and Their Work)  -  John Lucas

KORTE INHOUD

The four volumes of John Clare's poetry that were published during his tragic life were so brutally edited, and sometimes even wilfully censored for political reasons that his work invited mainly curiosity and condescension from the literary world. Now that readers have a chance to re-evaluateClare's poetry, the "peasant poet", "illiterate", "quaint" and "rustic" is emerging as a radical thinker and writer. John Lucas's unique volume reveals a knowing and articulate poet writing as an essentially oral artis...
1994 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1994 Uitgever: University Press 96 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0746307292 ISBN-13: 9780746307298