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First edition, Harold Goodwin (Illustrator). Cloth. Very good indeed in dustjacket. John Clare (1793-1864) was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "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". The two poems contained in this book are "Marten" and "Badger", narrative poems written out of anger and love of nature by a poet who, throughout his life, found emotional sustenance in the fields and forests surrounding his home. The poems capture the sights, the sounds, the mystery of the woods, and re-create what Clare saw happening as the world of men erupted into the peace and order of nature. Clare's poems are events experienced intensely and communicated to the reader with vivid immediacy. Harold Godwin's sensitive pencil drawings enhance them now with power, now with quiet, secretive beauty. Together, the poems and illustrations involve young (and older) readers in the poet's passionate vision and give them a new way of seeing poetry.
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Goodwin, Harold. Fine. No dust jacket. Just a little dusty from age; else as if unread; 8vo. Includes illustrations. Mustard yellow cloth covers w/ brown lettering; deep hinges; interesting line-drawn illus. on every page
