Country Life in the Poetry of John Clare
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The author begins with an interesting background of the period discussing the economic conditions, and then engages the readers with a short biography of John Clare. He then moves forward and analyzes the country life as portrayed in the famous poems of Clare and how the poet wrote with an artistic purpose even in those times of disorder.
Contents include:
Economic Conditions In The Time Of John Clare
The Life Of John Clare
Country Life In The Poetry Of John Clare
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Country Life in the Poetry of John Clare - Mildred M. Coen
Mildred M. Coen
Country Life in the Poetry of John Clare
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Table of Contents
PART I Economic Conditions in the Time of Clare
PART II The Life Of John Clare (1793–1864)
PART III Country Life in the Poetry of John Clare
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PART I
Economic Conditions in the Time of Clare
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About forty years before the birth of the Poet Clare, (1793) there began in England a land revolution which by the end of the eighteenth century pauperized a great part of the rural population. Up until 1750 fully half of the land of England was worked in common
, or in accordance with what was known as the open field system. This open field system means that there were special fields set aside for plow land. These fields were divided into very small strips which were alternately cultivated and left unplowed. Besides this plow land, there was a definite area of grazing land, known as the commons. With the coming of enclosures this open field system was abolished. (By the term ‘enclosure’ is meant that all the strips of any one man scattered throughout the holdings of the village were given to him in equivalent in a single, consolidated acreage, which he had to fence, ditch, etc. Or again, the term applies to a large district, as very frequently the commons, that was fenced in for the wealthy landowner’s sheep-pens.)
An enclosure began with a private bill introduced into Parliament—often by a wealthy landlord. This bill, showing the advantages of enclosing, was sent to a committee, whose leader or chairman might have been the