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John Clare

John Clare

Jonathan Bate

‘What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world’ Seamus Heaney John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, ...
John Clare Society Journal, 22 (2003):

John Clare Society Journal, 22 (2003):

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The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
John Clare's Romanticism

John Clare's Romanticism

Adam White

Kövesi, Simon, 'John Clare's Deaths: Poverty, Education and Poetry', in New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community, ed. by Simon Kӧvesi and Scott McEathron (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 146–167.
John Clare: selected poems

John Clare: selected poems

John Clare

Packed with features designed to help students get the most from the text they are studying: - Summaries with detailed commentaries - Extended commentaries on key passages - Discussion of themes and literary techniques - Author biography - ...
John Clare in Context

John Clare in Context

Geoffrey Summerfield

Critics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.
New Essays on John Clare

New Essays on John Clare

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Scott McEathron This chapter examines the career of Frederick Martin, author of the first biography of the poet, The Life of John Clare (1865). It puts the biography's rhetorical emphases and polemical tendencies into context as extensions of ...
John Clare's Religion

John Clare's Religion

Sarah Houghton-Walker

Sarah Houghton-Walker. THE NINE TEENTH CENTURY John Clare's Religion SARAH HOUGHTON-WALKER JOHN CLARE'S RELIGION The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors' Preface. Front Cover.
Double-Dare Clare

Double-Dare Clare

Yvonne Prinz

Clare plans to spend some quality time with her best friend Allison for their eighth grade winter break, but when sparks start to fly between Allison and Clare's old buddy Paul, Clare might need to turn to her old imaginary friend Elsa to ...
Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature

Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature

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The Case of John Clare Yves Abrioux How or what can philosophy signify in the case of an author conventionally described as a “peasant poet”? In the eyes of the publishers and patrons of John Clare (1793–1864), and also of the poet ...
Not Fair, Clare

Not Fair, Clare

Yvonne Prinz

Clare is ready to start her first day of eighth grade with her new best friend Allison, but when the popular Ginny Germain welcomes Allison into her exclusive clique, Clare might have to revert to hanging out with her old imaginary friend ...
Rattling Rocco

Rattling Rocco

Susan Clare Anderson

Susan Clare Anderson. Rattling Rocco Edited By Tanya Miller Copyright © 2015 by Susan Clare Anderson. 721486 ISBN: Softcover. Written and Illustrated By SUSAN CLARE ANDERSON “Is there anything we can do?” asked Leramy, looking ...
Resolving Family Conflicts

Resolving Family Conflicts

Jane Murphy

Copyright © 2005 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Clare Huntington for the essays: Clare Huntington (2006), 'Rights Myopia in Child Welfare', UCLA Law Review, 53, pp. 637–40; 656–72. Copyright © 2006 Clare Huntington; ...
Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870

Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870

Clare Midgley

The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 Clare Midgley, Senior Lecturer in History Clare Midgley. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 For Quaker views of black equality before God see J.William Frost (ed.), The Quaker Origins of Antislavery ...
The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, ...

The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, ...

Clare Walker Leslie

But if Clare wasn't available in person, then I'd want my grandchildren to have this book." -- David Sobel, Director, Teacher Certification, Antioch University
Magisterium: The Iron Trial

Magisterium: The Iron Trial

Cassandra Clare

From the imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping plunge into the magical unknown.
The Great Stink

The Great Stink

Clare Clark

Beautifully written, evocative and compelling, with a fantastically vivid cast of characters, Clare Clarke's first book is a rich and suspenseful novel that draws the reader right into Victorian London and into the worlds of its characters ...
Savage Lands

Savage Lands

Clare Clark

Praised by Hilary Mantel, Amanda Foreman, and the New York Times Book Review for her “verve and intelligence . . . [and] the originality of her imagination,” Clare Clark has become a rising star in historical fiction.
THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CALENDAR

THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CALENDAR

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Clare. •Duck, Richard G. John's •Duckworth, Samuel, Trinity Dudley, William C. Queens' Dudley, Benjamin W. Cath. Dudley, Charles, Trinity •Duffield, Richard, John's Duffield, R. Dawson John's Duffield, Francis, Trinity Dugard, George, John's ...
The Great War

The Great War

John D. Clare

Foundation edition of this revised and updated bestselling title.
Poetry Please: The Seasons

Poetry Please: The Seasons

Various Poets

This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's ...
United Kingdom, 1500-1750

United Kingdom, 1500-1750

John D. Clare

Clarity of language and layout is suitable for students of all abilities.
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring ...

The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring ...

Clare Mulley

Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gets under the skin of these two distinctive and unconventional women, giving a full—and as yet largely unknown—account of their contrasting yet strangely parallel lives, against a changing backdrop of ...
Francis and Clare: The Complete Works

Francis and Clare: The Complete Works

Saint Francis (of Assisi)

Francis (c. 1182-1226) and Clare (c. 1193-1254) together shaped the spirituality of early 13th-century Europe. Here for the first time in English are their complete writings, brought together in one volume.
The Billionaire and the Virgin: A Billionaires and ...

The Billionaire and the Virgin: A Billionaires and ...

Jessica Clare

As Jessica Clare, she writes erotic contemporary romances, including the Billionaire Boys Club novels and the Animal Magnetism novels.
Keep Me Close

Keep Me Close

Clare Francis

Yet Catherine's watcher is with her. And she has no way of knowing who she can trust. 'Crime novels with action to keep you guessing until the very end' Daily Mail 'Clare Francis has serious crime-writing talent' Mail on Sunday
Marshmallow

Marshmallow

Clare Turlay Newberry

This is the true story of how Oliver and Marshmallow become friends. Clare Turlay Newberry's lifelong passions for cats and for drawing come together in this elegantly illustrated book, winner of the 1943 Caldecott Honor.
Night Sky

Night Sky

Clare Francis

Night Sky is Clare Francis' sweeping chronicle of Europe in peace and war, a tremendous floodtide of narrative that builds to a gripping and unforgettable finale. 'Magic that is hard to describe.

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