John Clare: The Critical Heritage

by Storey,Mark; Storey,Mark

• ISBN13: 9780415134491
• ISBN10: 0415134498
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	p. v
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Note on the Text	p. 28
The Early Days	p. 29
John Clare Apologizes	p. 29
John Clare Addresses the Public	p. 30
John Clare on His Hopes of Success	p. 31
The Problem of the 'Dedication' to Poems Descriptive	p. 32
Words of Warning	p. 33
Octavius Gilchrist Introduces Clare to the Literary World	p. 35
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery	p. 43
Introduction to Poems Descriptive	p. 43
From an Unsigned Review, New Times	p. 54
Octavius Gilchrist on Poems Descriptive	p. 56
Tributes in Verse	p. 57
Advice on Alterations and Omissions: Trouble with the Native	p. 60
Eliza Emmerson on Her Admiration of 'Nature S Child'	p. 65
Charles Mossop on the Source of Clare's Success	p. 67
From an Unsigned Review, New Monthly Magazine	p. 68
From an Unsigned Review, Monthly Review	p. 73
Unsigned Notice, Monthly Magazine	p. 76
John Scott, from an Unsigned Review, London Magazine	p. 78
John Clare and the Morning Post	p. 81
Eliza Emmerson on the Certainty of Ultimate Success	p. 84
An Enquirer After Clare's Welfare	p. 85
Eliza Emmerson on Critical Reactions	p. 86
Octavius Gilchrist on Having to Write Another Article on Clare	p. 87
From an Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review	p. 88
James Plumptre on Rural Poetry According to Particular Principles	p. 93
From an Unsigned Review, Quarterly Review	p. 94
Unsigned Article, Guardian	p. 100
J. G. Lockhart on Clare, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	p. 102
From an Unsigned Review, British Critic	p. 103
From an Unsigned Review, Antijacobin Review	p. 105
Robert Bloomfield on the Pleasure Afforded Him by Clare's Poems	p. 107
An Admirer Comments on Clare's Poetry	p. 108
Eliza Emmerson on Reactions in Bristol	p. 109
Edward Drury on the Poems People Like	p. 110
Clare and 'Native Genius'	p. 111
Some Brief Comments on Clare	p. 117
Some Opinions on 'Solitude'	p. 120
The Period Prior to Publication of the Village Minstrel: Incidental Comments	p. 120
John Taylor on Narrative Poetry	p. 122
Edward Drury with Some Good Advice	p. 123
Edward Drury on the Songs	p. 124
John Taylor on the Next Volume	p. 124
John Clare and C. H. Townsend on Plagiarism	p. 125
John Clare on the Judgments of Others	p. 126
More Advice from Eliza Emmerson	p. 127
John Clare on One of His Poems	p. 129
John Taylor on Clare's Good Taste	p. 129
John Taylor on True Poetry	p. 130
Edward Drury on 'The Last of Autumn'	p. 131
Some Opinions on 'The Peasant Boy'	p. 132
John Taylor on the Prospects of Success	p. 133
Comments on 'Prettiness' in Poetry	p. 134
Comments in Anticipation of the New Volume	p. 135
The Village Minstrel	p. 136
from the Introduction to the Village Minstrel	p. 136
John Clare on Popularity	p. 141
From an Unsigned Review, Literary Gazette	p. 141
Two Views of Clare, Literary Chronicle	p. 145
From an Unsigned Review, Monthly Magazine	p. 150
John Taylor on Clare, London Magazine	p. 157
From an Unsigned Review, European Magazine	p. 165
Unsigned Review, New Monthly Magazine	p. 167
From an Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review	p. 168
C. H. Townsend on the Village Minstrel	p. 172
John Clare on the Disappointing Response	p. 173
An Admirer on the Village Minstrel	p. 174
Charles Lamb on the 'True Rustic Style'	p. 175
The Rev. W. Allen on Clare	p. 176
John Clare on the Neglect of True Genius	p. 182
Charles Abraham Elton, 'The Idler's Epistle to John Clare'	p. 183
Eliza Emmerson Comments on 'Superstition's Dream'	p. 187
The Period Prior to Publication of the Shepherd's Calendar: Incidental Comments	p. 187
Octavius Gilchrist on a Magazine Poem by Clare	p. 189
John Clare on Inspiration and Isolation	p. 189
John Taylor on the Need to Avoid Vulgarity	p. 190
Some Comments on 'The Parish'	p. 191
Two Brief Comments on a Sonnet by 'Percy Green'	p. 193
James Hessey on the Shepherd's Calendar	p. 194
H. F. Cary on the Shepherd's Calendar	p. 196
John Taylor on the Shepherd's Calendar	p. 197
A 'Chorus of Praise' for Clare	p. 198
Eliza Emmerson on Clare	p. 199
The Shepherd's Calendar	p. 200
John Clare, the Preface to the Shepherd's Calendar	p. 200
Unsigned Notice, Literary Gazette	p. 201
Josiah Conder, Unsigned Review, Eclectic Review	p. 202
Unsigned Notice, London Weekly Review	p. 206
Unsigned Review, Literary Chronicle	p. 208
Some Comments on 'Autumn' and 'Summer Images'	p. 211
The Period Prior to Publication of the Rural Muse: Incidental Comments	p. 211
Thomas Pringle on Clare and Fashion	p. 212
John Clare and George Darley on Action in Poetry	p. 213
Derwent Coleridge on Clare	p. 214
Some Practical Advice	p. 215
John Clare on Southey's View of Uneducated Poets	p. 216
Thomas Crossley, a Sonnet to Clare	p. 217
John Clare on Ambition and Independence	p. 218
Two Reactions to 'The Nightingale's Nest'	p. 218
The Rural Muse	p. 220
John Clare, the Preface to the Rural Muse	p. 220
Unsigned Notice, Athenaeum	p. 221
Unsigned Notice, Literary Gazette	p. 223
John Wilson, Unsigned Review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	p. 225
Two Readers on the Rural Muse	p. 238
Unsigned Notice, New Monthly Magazine	p. 239
Unsigned Review, Druids' Monthly Magazine	p. 240
Thomas De Quincey on Clare	p. 245
The Asylum Years	p. 245
Cyrus Redding Visits John Clare	p. 247
Edwin Paxton Hood on Clare	p. 257
A Biographical Sketch of Clare	p. 266
Clare in Passing	p. 267
John Plummer on a Forgotten Poet	p. 268
John Askham on Clare	p. 271
Obituaries and Lives	p. 271
John Dalby, a Poem on Clare	p. 273
John Plummer, Again, on Clare	p. 274
Spencer T. Hall on Clare and Bloomfield	p. 275
A Female Audience for John Clare	p. 282
An American View of a Peasant Poet	p. 285
The Doomed Poet	p. 287
From Some Reviews of Cherry's Life and Remains	p. 289
Clare and the Soul of the People	p. 292
The Period 1874-1920	p. 298
Some Late Nineteenth-Century Views of Clare	p. 298
Norman Gale, a Rhapsodic View	p. 299
Arthur Symons on Clare	p. 301
The Distinction Between Early and Late Clare	p. 309
Clare as a Poet of Greatness	p. 310
Edward Thomas on Clare	p. 311
Alan Porter, a Violent View	p. 320
The Period 1920-35	p. 320
Samuel Looker on Clare's Genius	p. 322
J. C. Squire, with Reservations	p. 323
H. J. Massingham on Clare's Uniqueness	p. 325
J. Middleton Murry, an Enthusiastic View	p. 329
Robert Lynd on Clare and Mr Hudson	p. 340
Edmund Gosse, a Dissentient View	p. 343
Clare and Keats	p. 346
Maurice Hewlett on Clare's Derivations	p. 349
Maurice Hewlett on Clare as Peasant Poet (again)	p. 357
J. Middleton Murry on Clare and Wordsworth	p. 359
Alan Porter on a Book of the Moment	p. 364
a Hesitant View	p. 369
Again	p. 372
Edmund Blunden on Clare	p. 376
The Period 1935-64	p. 382
Clare's Dream	p. 382
John Speirs on Clare's Limitations	p. 384
H. J. Massingham on the Labourer Poets	p. 387
W. K. Richmond on Clare	p. 388
Geoffrey Grigson on Clare	p. 404
Robert Graves on Clare as a True Poet	p. 413
Clare as an Intruder into the Canon	p. 416
Clare as a Lyric Poet	p. 421
More Doubts About Clare	p. 425
Harold Bloom on Clare	p. 428
Some Centenary Comments	p. 439
Bibliography	p. 444
Index	p. 445
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