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This volume brings together, in definitive form, all of John Clare's important autobiographical writings. His Autobiographical Fragments, Journal, and Sketches are set alongside his famous Journey out of Essex. Maps of Clare's countryside, his will, and extracts from his asylum letters are also included, presenting the author in all his guises—ploughboy, gardener, and militiaman; lover and husband; acquaintance of Hazlitt, Lamb, and Coleridge; and finally, inmate in an asylum.
This volume brings together, in definitive form, all of John Clare's important autobiographical writings. His Autobiographical Fragments, Journal, and Sketches are set alongside his famous Journey out of Essex. Maps of Clare's countryside, his will, and extracts from his asylum letters are also i...
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John Clare was an English rural-poet and storyteller, commonly known as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet. David Powell was the librarian at Nene College, Northampton. Eric Robinson is a professor of modern history at the University of Massachusetts.
John Clare was an English rural-poet and storyteller, commonly known as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet. David Powell was the librarian at Nene College, Northampton. Eric Robinson is a professor of modern history at the University of Massachusetts.
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