Table of Contents

Editorial Conventions and Abbreviations
The Midsummer Cushion (continued)
Ballads & Songs
Sonnets
Poems in Other Manuscripts
Peterborough Manuscript A40
Northampton Manuscript 18
Pforzheimer Library, Miscellaneous Manuscript 196
Explanatory Notes
Glossary
Index of Titles for Volume IV
Index of first Lines for Volume IV

Reviews

`What these two Clarendon volumes do offer that is not in the Tibble/Thornton edition, apart from the subscription lists, is a wealth of manuscript variants, so that we have a much richer sense of the poems and their development.'
BARS, no. 20
`There are still exciting discoveries to be made, then, among the enormous sprawl of Clare's poetry manuscripts, and one is grateful to the Clarendon editors for their continuing Herculean labours in the archive.'
BARS, no. 20
`a remarkable collection of poems ... The retort to any carping about costs is that it is worth every penny; no poet, and certainly not Clare, could ever imagine their every jot and tittle would be so faithfully rescued for posterity. Any and every page is a testament to the patient endeavour, the sheer hard work, of Eric Robinson and his team: this is indeed a labour of love ... the material is all here, so there is no sense of our being denied
anything.'
Mark Storey, ROES, vol 50, no 200 (1999)
`This ongoing Clarendon edition of Clare's poetry... will come to be seen as one of the greatest editions of the twentieth century.'
Greg Crossan, Notes and Queries Vol.47 No.1