John Clare

by Jonathan Bate

Book Overview

The long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet" John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive literary biography. Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work: his birth in poverty, his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374179905
• ISBN13: 9780374179908
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"