Providing the first reliable basis for a new assessment of John Clare's poetic growth, this two-volume collection presents all of Clare's early poems--many published here for the first time--and all known variants. Ranging from juvenilia to the published poems that first established Clare's reputation, this edition preserves Clare's characteristic spelling, punctuation, grammar, and vocabulary, and includes an introduction, extensive annotations, and a glossary.
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Providing the first reliable basis for a new assessment of John Clare's poetic growth, this two-volume collection presents all of Clare's early poems--many published here for the first time--and all known variants. Ranging from juvenilia to the published poems that first established Clare's reputation, this edition preserves Clare's characteristic spelling, punctuation, grammar, and vocabulary, and includes an introduction, extensive annotations, and a glossary.
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Seller's Description:
Good with no dust jacket. 0198123140. 599pp + 3 unnumbered pages. Index. Volume 1 only. Book has navy cloth hardcover with gold text on spine. Text is clear and unmarked.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 602 pages.
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Near Fine. 8vo, finely bound in quarter green niger, gilt titled, over marbled boards, by the Athene Bindery, Wootton, Woodstock, Oxon. Near copy with just a touch of mellowing to spine color. Either bound specially by the publisher for the editor or commissioned by Robinson himself, purchased in a lot of Clare material from the library of Eric Robinson, the main editor of Clare's works in scholarly Oxford editions. With "ER" in pencil on flyleaf. A lovely book.
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Very Good. No Jacket. -First Edition-Two Volume Set-Edges of text block a little shelf worn-Set ow/ solid, clean and bright w/ only minor wear-xxxiv/599 xii/835 pages. 8vo. No dustwrapper.
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Fine. 8vo, finely bound in quarter green niger, gilt titled, over marbled boards, by the Athene Bindery, Wootton, Woodstock, Oxon. Fine copy. Either bound specially by the publisher for the editor or commissioned by Robinson himself, purchased in a lot of Clare material from the library of Eric Robinson, the main editor of Clare's works in scholarly Oxford editions. With "ER" in pencil on flyleaf. A lovely book.
