Clare''s Lyric - John Clare and Three Modern Poets

Clare's Lyric examines John Clare's lyric poems and their impact on the work of three twentieth-century poets--Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I: Clare's lyric technique


• 1: Sound, language, and the lyric subject in the middle period poems


• 2: Form and structure: the sonnets


• 3: Representing absence: time, place, and the language of poetry in the asylum poems


• Part II: Clare's lyric in the twentieth century


• 4: Arthur Symons: mimesis after aestheticism


• 5: Edmund Blunden: no man's land


• 6: John Ashbery: an impossible calque of reality

About the author

Stephanie Kuduk Weiner teaches British literature in the English Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. She received her undergraduate degree in English and Women's Studies from the University of Minnesota, and her doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. Her first book was Republican Politics and English Poetry, 1789-1874 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). She has written widely about Romantic and Victorian British poetry, including the work of Ernest Dowson, Arthur Hugh Clough, Algernon Swinburne, William Blake, and John Clare. She is an enthusiastic gardener, backyard birder, and long-distance walker.

Summary

Clare's Lyric examines John Clare's lyric poems and their impact on the work of three twentieth-century poets--Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery.

Additional text

What is novel in Weiner's explaination is not that Clare minics his world well, which no reasonable person would argue against, but that mimesis was his end, not experience. Experience serves mimesis, not vice versa.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9780199688029
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968802-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Lyrik, Poesie, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, Poetry, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets