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John Clare

A Biography

John Clare( )
Author: Bate, Jonathan
ISBN:978-0-374-17990-8
Publication Date:Nov 2003
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $40.00
Book Description:

The long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet" John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive literary biography. Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work: his birth in poverty, his work as an agricultural labourer, his...
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Book Details
Pages:672
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography / General
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 2.06 Inches
Book Weight:2.3 Pounds
Author Biography
Bate, Jonathan (Author)
Jonathan Bate was born June 26, 1958. He is a British biographer, broadcaster, and leading Shakespeare scholar. He studied at Sevenoaks School, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard University. At Cambridge, he was a Fellow of Trinity Hall. While studying at Harvard, he held a Harness Fellowship.

Bate is a professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. He was previously King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. He has also lectured at various universities in the United States. Bate is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature. He made the Samuel Johnson 2015 shortliast with his title Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life .

Bate lives near Stratford-upon-Avon and is married to author and biography, Paula Byrne. They have three children.

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