Major Works

by John Clare

Book Overview

After years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was generally not appreciated by his contemporaries, and his later mental instability further contributed to his loss of critical esteem. But the extraordinary range of his poetical gifts has restored him to the company of contemporaries like Lord Byron, John Keats,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199549796
• ISBN13: 9780199549795
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.0" x 7.5"