1. Introduction; Simon Kövesi and Erin Lafford.-
2. Poetry’s Variety: John Clare and the Poetic Scene in the
1820s and 1830; David Stewart.- 3. ‘Sweet the Merry Bells
Ring Round’: John Clare’s songs for the drawing room; Kirsteen
McCue.- 4.‘Sea Songs Love Ballads &c &c’: John Clare and
Vernacular Song; Stephanie Kuduk
Weiner.- 5. John Clare’s Landforms; Sara
Lodge.- 6. John Clare’s Ear: Metres and Rhythms; Andrew
Hodgson.- 7. The Shepherd’s Calendar and Forms of
Repetition; Sarah Houghton-Walker.- 8. John Clare’s Dynamic
Animals; James Castell.- 9. Multispecies Work
in John Clare’s ‘Bird Nesting’ Poems; Katey
Castellano.- 10. Biosemiosis and Posthumanism in
John Clare’s Multi-Centered Environments; Scott
Hess.- 11. Common Distress: John Clare’s Poetic
Strain; Michael Nicholson.- 12. ‘fancys or
feelings’: John Clare’s Hypochondriac Poetics; Erin
Lafford.- 13. ‘A song in the night’: reconsidering John
Clare’s later asylum poetry; James Whitehead.- Index.
Simon Kövesi is Professor of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK, editor of the John Clare Society Journal, and author of John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History (2017).
Erin Lafford is a postdoctoral research fellow in English at the
University of Derby, UK. She is currently completing her first
book, John Clare and the Poetry of Illness.
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