The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare

by John Barrell

Book Overview

It is generally agreed that in the early eighteenth century people began to be interested in landscape as something to have a 'taste' for; that they saw landscape through the eyes of the great painters, and that later pictures, poetry and landscape gardening all reflect that taste. Dr Barrell examines this interest, showing how the taste for landscape affected the poetry in detail. John Clare, who lived most of his life in rural Northamptonshire,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521181321
• ISBN13: 9780521181327
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"