John Clare

The Critical Heritage

Mark Storey

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• ISBN:
  9781134781935
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.
Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

Index

The index is divided into three sections: I. Clare’s writings; II. Clare: topics and characteristics; III. General, including people and periodicals.

I Clare's Writings

• ‘Address to Plenty’ 44
• Asylum Poems 2, 13, 14, 15–23 passim, 269, 289, 304, 307–8, 309, 311–12, 319, 327–8, 365, 385, 411, 417, 422–3, 430, 434–5, 440, 441
• ‘Autumn’ 211, 228–9, 334, 347, 353, 376–81

• ‘Birds’ Nests’ 438–9

• ‘Country Girl, The’ 60, 91, 109
• ‘Cross Roads’ 164

• ‘Dawnings of Genius’ 46–7, 60, 62
• ‘Death of Beauty’ 312
• ‘Dolly’s Mistake’ 60, 63, 91, 109

• ‘Evening Walk, The’ 45

• ‘Fate of Amy, The’ 95
• ‘Flitting, The’ 350–1
• ‘Foddering Boy, The’ 373
• ‘Friend Lubin’ 60, 109, 170

• ‘Helpstone’ 60, 62, 64, 79–80, 105

• ‘I Am’ 436–7
• ‘I Hid my Love’ 429–30
• ‘Invitation, The’ 41–2, 312
• ‘Invite to Eternity’ 14, 18, 435–6

• ‘Langley Bush’ 158–9
• ‘Last of Autumn, The’ 131
• Later Poems (Robinson and Summer-field) 21, 439, 440
• Letters (J.W. and Anne Tibble) 28
• ‘Lodge House’ 12...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• PREFACE
• Contents
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• The early days (1818–20)
• Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820)
• The period prior to publication of The Village Minstrel: incidental comments (March 1820–August 1821)
• The Village Minstrel (1821)
• The period prior to publication of The Shepherd’s Calendar: incidental comments (January 1822–December 1826)
• The Shepherd’s Calendar (1827)
• The period prior to publication of The Rural Muse: incidental comments (January 1828–January 1833)
• The Rural Muse (1835)
• The asylum years (1837–64)
• Obituaries and Lives (1864–73)
• The period 1874–1920
• The period 1920–35
• The period 1935–64
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX