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Introduction John Goodridge and Simon Kövesi
1. John Clare: Prologue to a New Life
Jonathan Bate
2. ‘Written by Himself’—Edited by Others: The Autobiographical
Writings of John Clare3. Writing Clare’s Poems: ‘The Myth of Solitary Genius’
Bob Heyes
5. Boys, Marvellous Boys: John Clare’s ‘Natural Genius’
Bridget Keegan
6. ‘Labour and Luxury’: Clare’s Lost Pastoral and the Importance
of the Voice of Labour in the Early Poems7. ‘Like Clover Through Lime’: Rural Ruins and the Language
of the Past8. Viewing and Reviewing Clare
Alan Vardy
9. In Place and Out of Place: Clare in The Midsummer Cushion
Richard Cronin
10. Of Birds and Bards: Clare and His Romantic Contemporaries
P.M.S. Dawson
11. Byron, Tasso, and John Clare’s Child Harold
Cathy Taylor
12. Masculinity, Misogyny and the Marketplace: Clare’s ‘Don Juan
A Poem’Further Reading: a Chronological Survey of Clare Criticism,
1970-2000Copies are available directly from the John Clare Society by Post.
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The John Clare Society
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