"I Am": Selected Poetry of John Clare (pbk)

Author: John Clare

Editor: Jonathan Bate

ISBN: 9780374528690

Binding: paperback

Section: Poetry

"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of remarkable verse of the great "peasant poet" that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers for two centuries: the tender chronicler of nature and childhood; the champion of folkways in the face of oppression; the passionate, sweet-tongued love-poet; and the lonely visionary confined, in old age and senility, to asylums.