New PDF release: Clare's Lyric: John Clare and Three Modern Poets

By Stephanie Kuduk Weiner

ISBN-10: 0199688028

ISBN-13: 9780199688029

This booklet considers the lyric poems written via John Clare and 3 twentieth-century poets—Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery—who grew to become to him at pivotal moments of their personal improvement. those writers crafted a particular mode of lyric, 'Clare's lyric', that emphatically grounds its fact claims in mimetic accuracy. For those writers, exact illustration consists of not just phrases that identify gadgets, describe scenes, and create photographs pointing to a
shared truth but additionally styles of sound, the syntactic association of strains, and the shapes of entire poems and collections of poems. Their works masterfully examine how poetic language and shape can confer with the area, note by means of note, line by way of line, and poem by means of poem.

Written in a full of life and available variety, Clare's Lyric sheds gentle on a richly assorted physique of poems and on enduring questions about how literature represents fact. Weiner's attentive shut readings convey the writings of Clare, Symons, Blunden, and Ashbery to existence through revealing accurately how they captured a necessary, arresting, and intricate international of their poems. Their new angle to lyric is traced from Clare's poems approximately birdsong, his sonnets, and his later poems of loss and
absence to Symons's efforts to make 'amends to nature' Blunden's shiny depictions of a eu and English nation-state scarred through the 1st global battle, and Ashbery's unbounded and bountiful landscapes. This creative research refines our figuring out of the cultured of Romanticism, the style of lyric, and the
practice of literary illustration, and it makes a compelling case for the continued value of poems approximately nature and social life.

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