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  Northborough Sonnets (Paperback) By (author) John Clare, Volume editor Eric Robinson, Edited by David Powell, Edited by P.M.S. Dawson

  

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  Short Description for Northborough SonnetsJohn Clare was a practitioner of the sonnet form at all periods of his poetic career. This volume contains all the sonnets that Clare wrote at Northborough between 1832 and 1837 with the exception of those included in "The Midsummer Cushion" and "The Rural Muse".
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  • Publisher: Fyfield Books
  • Published: 01 September 1995
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781857541984 ISBN 10: 1857541987
  • Sales rank: 780,562

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Full description for Northborough Sonnets

• John Clare was a practitioner of the sonnet form at all periods of his poetic career. The sonnets he produced in the last years before his institutionalization in 1837, first at High Beech and then in Northampton General Asylum, are of interest, since he exploited the brevity of the form to express a simultaneous precision of observation and starkness of vision that he rarely achieved either before or after. This volume contains all the sonnets that Clare wrote at Northborough between 1832 and 1837 with the exception of those included in "The Midsummer Cushion" and "The Rural Muse". This collection allows the reader to trace the development of Clare's handling of the form in this period. They constitute vignettes of rural life in the early-19th century and the record of a poetic sensibility. This text is part of the "John Clare Programme".