John Clare: the critical heritage

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 14
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 16
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 18
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 47
John Clare apologizes, ?1818......Page 48
John Clare addresses the public, 1818......Page 49
John Clare on his hopes of success, 1818......Page 50
The problem of the \'Dedication\' to Poems Descriptive, 1818......Page 51
EDWARD DRURY and JOHN TAYLOR, Words of warning, January 1820......Page 52
OCTAVIUS GILCHRIST introduces Clare to the literary world, January 1820......Page 54
TAYLOR, Introduction to Poems Descriptive, 1820......Page 62
From an unsigned review, New Times, January 1820......Page 73
GILCHRIST on Poems Descriptive, January 1820......Page 75
Tributes in verse, 1820, 1821......Page 76
Advice on alterations and omissions: trouble with the native, February  December 1820......Page 79
ELIZA EMMERSON on her admiration of \'Nature\'s Child\', February 1820......Page 84
CHARLES MOSSOP on the source of Clare\'s success, February 1820......Page 86
From an unsigned review, New Monthly Magazine, March 1820......Page 87
From an unsigned review, Monthly Review, March 1820......Page 92
Unsigned notice, Monthly Magazine, March 1820......Page 95
JOHN SCOTT, from an unsigned review, London Magazine, March 1820......Page 97
John Clare and the Morning Post, February  May 1820......Page 100
ELIZA EMMERSON on the certainty of ultimate success, March 1820......Page 103
An enquirer after Clare\'s welfare, March 1820......Page 104
ELIZA EMMERSON on critical reactions, April 1820......Page 105
GILCHRIST on having to write another article on Clare, April 1820......Page 106
From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, April 1820......Page 107
JAMES PLUMPTRE on rural poetry according to particular principles, April 1820......Page 112
GILCHRIST, from an unsigned review, Quarterly Review, May 1820......Page 113
Unsigned article, Guardian, May 1820......Page 119
J.G.LOCKHART on Clare, Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine, June 1820......Page 121
From an unsigned review, British Critic, June 1820......Page 122
From an unsigned review, Antijacobin Review, June 1820......Page 124
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD on the pleasure afforded him by Clare\'s poems, July 1820......Page 126
An admirer comments on Clare\'s poetry, July 1820......Page 127
ELIZA EMMERSON on reactions in Bristol, November 1820......Page 128
DRURY on the poems people like, 1820......Page 129
Clare and \'Native Genius\', January and April 1821......Page 130
Some brief comments on Clare, April  July 1821......Page 136
Some opinions on \'Solitude\', March  September 1820......Page 139
TAYLOR on narrative poetry, April 1820......Page 141
DRURY with some good advice, May 1820......Page 142
TAYLOR on the next volume, May 1820......Page 143
John Clare and C.H.TOWNSEND on plagiarism, May  September 1820......Page 144
John Clare on the judgments of others, May 1820  July 1821......Page 145
More advice from ELIZA EMMERSON, July  September 1820......Page 146
John Clare on one of his poems, December 1820......Page 148
TAYLOR on true poetry, January 1821......Page 149
DRURY on \'The Last of Autumn\', January 1821......Page 150
Some opinions on \'The Peasant Boy\', January 1821......Page 151
TAYLOR on the prospects of success, February 1821......Page 152
Comments on \'prettiness\' in poetry, April  May 1821......Page 153
Comments in anticipation of the new volume, April  May 1821......Page 154
TAYLOR, from the Introduction to The Village Minstrel, 1821......Page 155
John Clare on popularity, September 1821......Page 160
Two views of Clare, Literary Chronicle, October 1821......Page 164
From an unsigned review, Monthly Magazine, November 1821......Page 169
TAYLOR on Clare, London Magazine, November 1821......Page 176
From an unsigned review, European Magazine, November 1821......Page 184
Unsigned review, New Monthly Magazine, November 1821......Page 186
From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, January 1822......Page 187
TOWNSEND on The Village Minstrel, January 1822......Page 191
John Clare on the disappointing response, February 1822......Page 192
An admirer on The Village Minstrel, April 1822......Page 193
CHARLES LAMB on the \'true rustic style\', August 1822......Page 194
The REV. W.ALLEN on Clare, 1823......Page 195
John Clare on the neglect of true genius, August 1824......Page 201
CHARLES ELTON, \'The Idler\'s Epistle to John Clare\', 1824......Page 202
ELIZA EMMERSON comments on \'Superstition\'s Dream\', January 1822......Page 206
GILCHRISTona magazine poem by Clare, February 1822......Page 208
TAYLOR on the need to avoid vulgarity, February 1822......Page 209
Some comments on \'The Parish\', February  May 1823......Page 210
Two brief comments on a sonnet by \'Percy Green\', July 1823......Page 212
JAMES HESSEY on The Shepherd\'s Calendar, October 1823, November 1824......Page 213
H.F.CARY on The Shepherd\'s Calendar, January 1824......Page 215
TAYLOR on The Shepherd\'s Calendar, March 1825  March 1826......Page 216
A \'chorus of praise\' for Clare, December 1826......Page 217
ELIZA EMMERSON on Clare, December 1826......Page 218
John Clare, the Preface to The Shepherd\'s Calendar, 1827......Page 219
Unsigned notice, Literary Gazette, March 1827......Page 220
JOSIAH CONDER, unsigned review, Eclectic Review, June 1827......Page 221
Unsigned notice, London Weekly Review, June 1827......Page 225
Unsigned review, Literary Chronicle, October 1827......Page 227
Some comments on \'Autumn\' and \'Summer Images\', January 1828  July 1831......Page 230
THOMAS PRINGLE on Clare and fashion, August 1828......Page 231
GEORGE DARLEY and John Clare on action in poetry, 1829......Page 232
DERWENT COLERIDGE on Clare, January 1831......Page 233
Some practical advice, February 1831......Page 234
John Clare on Southey\'s view of uneducated poets, March 1831......Page 235
THOMAS CROSSLEY, a sonnet to Clare, December 1831......Page 236
John Clare on ambition and independence, November 1832......Page 237
John Clare, the Preface to The Rural Muse, May 1835......Page 239
Unsigned notice, Athenaeum, July 1835......Page 240
Unsigned notice, Literary Gazette, July 1835......Page 242
JOHN WILSON, unsigned review, Blackwood\'s Edinburgh Magazine, July 1835......Page 244
Two readers on The Rural Muse, July 1835......Page 257
Unsigned notice, New Monthly Magazine, August 1835......Page 258
Unsigned review, Druids\' Monthly Magazine, 1835......Page 259
THOMAS DE QUINCEY on Clare, December 1840......Page 264
CYRUS REDDING visits John Clare, May 1841......Page 266
EDWIN PAXTON HOOD on Clare, 1851......Page 276
A biographical sketch of Clare, 1856......Page 285
Clare in passing, January 1857......Page 286
JOHN PLUMMER on a forgotten poet, May 1861......Page 287
JOHN ASKHAM on Clare, 1863, 1864......Page 290
JOHN DALBY, a poem on Clare, June 1864......Page 292
PLUMMER, again, on Clare, July 1864......Page 293
SPENCER T.HALL on Clare and Bloomfield, March 1866......Page 294
A female audience for John Clare, February 1867......Page 301
An American view of a peasant poet, November 1869......Page 304
The doomed poet, 1873......Page 306
From some reviews of Cherry\'s Life and Remains, 1873......Page 308
Clare and the soul of the people, 1873, 1884......Page 311
Some late nineteenth  century views of Clare, 1887, 1893, 1897......Page 317
NORMAN GALE, a rhapsodic view, 1901......Page 318
ARTHUR SYMONS on Clare, 1908......Page 320
The distinction between early and late Clare, February 1909......Page 328
Clare as a poet of greatness, 1910......Page 329
EDWARD THOMAS on Clare, 1906, 1910, 1917......Page 330
ALAN PORTER, a violent view, May 1920......Page 339
SAMUEL LOOKER on Clare\'s genius, September, October 1920......Page 341
J.C.SQUIRE, with reservations, January 1921......Page 342
H.J.MASSINGHAM on Clare\'s uniqueness, January 1921......Page 344
J.MIDDLETON MURRY, an enthusiastic view, January 1921......Page 348
ROBERT LYND on Clare and Mr Hudson, January 1921......Page 359
EDMUND GOSSE, a dissentient view, January 1921......Page 362
Clare and Keats, February 1921......Page 365
MAURICE HEWLETT on Clare\'s derivations, March 1921......Page 368
HEWLETT on Clare as peasant poet (again), 1924......Page 376
J.MIDDLETON MURRY on Clare and Wordsworth, August 1924......Page 378
PORTER on a book of the moment, August 1924......Page 383
PERCY LUBBOCK, a hesitant view, September 1924......Page 388
GOSSE, again, October 1924......Page 391
EDMUND BLUNDEN on Clare, 1929, 1931......Page 395
Clare\'s dream, February 1935......Page 401
JOHN SPEIRS on Clare\'s limitations, June 1935......Page 403
H.J.MASSINGHAM on the labourer poets, 1942......Page 406
W.K.RICHMOND on Clare, 1947......Page 407
GEOFFREY GRIGSON on Clare, 1950......Page 423
ROBERT GRAVES on Clare as a true poet, 1955......Page 432
Clare as an intruder into the canon, April 1956......Page 435
Clare as a lyric poet, 1956......Page 440
More doubts about Clare, 1958......Page 444
Harold Bloom on Clare, 1962......Page 447
Some centenary comments, 1964......Page 458
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 463
INDEX......Page 464