The Shepherd's Calendar

by John Clare, Tim Chilcott (Editor)

Overview

A work of rural beauty by John Clare, one of the greatest pastoral poets of nineteenth century English literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781857548914
Publisher:	Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date:	12/01/2006
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

John Clare

John Clare (1793-1864) was an agricultural labourer who rose to fame as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet with the publication of his first book of poems in 1820. He suffered from mental illness and ended his days in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum. He is now recognized as one of the great English Romantic poets whose writing on rural society has a special power.

Eric Robinson, together with his associate editor David Powell, is editor of the mult-volume Oxford English Texts edition of the Collected Poems of John Clare and other selections of Clare's writings, including the Major Works in Oxford World's Classics.