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As James Reeves, an early critic and admirer, has said, "The existence of Clare the poet is, of course, a miracle . . . This is its most precious gift. Clare was a happy poet; there is more happiness in his poetry than in that of most others. This was no mere animal contentment of body and senses, but a quiet ecstasy and inward rapture. Such happiness is not to be had except at a price."
Tom Pohrt's drawings and watercolors have been widely admired. There are few alive whose sensibility more properly matches Clare's—it's as if Samuel Palmer had taken the commission to illustrate a selection of the peasant poet. Pohrt has himself made the selection of poems from the vast quantity that survived Clare's chaotic life. Robert Hass joins the project to place Clare's work in the larger context of nature poetry in the West. The result is a book sure to please those who know already of Clare's fine poems and those for whom this book will be their exciting introduction.
- John Clare - Author
- Tom Pohrt - Illustrator
- Robert Hass - Author of introduction, etc.
Kindle Book
- Release date: March 10, 2012
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781619020764
- Release date: March 10, 2012
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781619020764
- File size: 1240 KB
- Release date: March 10, 2012