John Clare and Community (Hardcover)

Introduction: Clare and community; Part I. Brother Bards and Fellow Labourers: 1. Great expectations: Clare, Chatterton and becoming a poet; 2. 'Three cheers for mute ingloriousness!': Clare and eighteenth-century poetry; 3. Junkets and Clarissimus: the Clare?Keats dialogue; 4. 'Neighbour John': Bloomfield, companionship and isolation; Part II. Representing Rural Life: 5. Enclosure and the poetry of protest; 6. The bird's nest poems, protection and violation; 7. Festive ritual and folk narrative; 8. Storytellings: 'old womens memorys'; Conclusion: community and solitude; Works consulted; Index.