The Collected Critical Heritage I: John Clare: The Critical Heritage (the Collected Critical Heritage : Victorian Poets) (volume 27)

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 PREFACE......Page 14 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 16 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 18 INTRODUCTION......Page 20 NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 47 John Clare apologizes, ?1818......Page 48 John Clare addresses the public, 1818......Page 49 John Clare on his hopes of success, 1818......Page 50 The problem of the 'Dedication' to Poems Descriptive, 1818......Page 51 EDWARD DRURY and JOHN TAYLOR, Words of warning, January 1820......Page 52 OCTAVIUS GILCHRIST introduces Clare to the literary world, January 1820......Page 54 TAYLOR, Introduction to Poems Descriptive, 1820......Page 62 From an unsigned review, New Times, January 1820......Page 73 GILCHRIST on Poems Descriptive, January 1820......Page 75 Tributes in verse, 1820, 1821......Page 76 Advice on alterations and omissions: trouble with the native, February December 1820......Page 79 ELIZA EMMERSON on her admiration of 'Nature's Child', February 1820......Page 84 CHARLES MOSSOP on the source of Clare's success, February 1820......Page 86 From an unsigned review, New Monthly Magazine, March 1820......Page 87 From an unsigned review, Monthly Review, March 1820......Page 92 Unsigned notice, Monthly Magazine, March 1820......Page 95 JOHN SCOTT, from an unsigned review, London Magazine, March 1820......Page 97 John Clare and the Morning Post, February May 1820......Page 100 ELIZA EMMERSON on the certainty of ultimate success, March 1820......Page 103 An enquirer after Clare's welfare, March 1820......Page 104 ELIZA EMMERSON on critical reactions, April 1820......Page 105 GILCHRIST on having to write another article on Clare, April 1820......Page 106 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, April 1820......Page 107 JAMES PLUMPTRE on rural poetry according to particular principles, April 1820......Page 112 GILCHRIST, from an unsigned review, Quarterly Review, May 1820......Page 113 Unsigned article, Guardian, May 1820......Page 119 J.G.LOCKHART on Clare, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, June 1820......Page 121 From an unsigned review, British Critic, June 1820......Page 122 From an unsigned review, Antijacobin Review, June 1820......Page 124 ROBERT BLOOMFIELD on the pleasure afforded him by Clare's poems, July 1820......Page 126 An admirer comments on Clare's poetry, July 1820......Page 127 ELIZA EMMERSON on reactions in Bristol, November 1820......Page 128 DRURY on the poems people like, 1820......Page 129 Clare and 'Native Genius', January and April 1821......Page 130 Some brief comments on Clare, April July 1821......Page 136 Some opinions on 'Solitude', March September 1820......Page 139 TAYLOR on narrative poetry, April 1820......Page 141 DRURY with some good advice, May 1820......Page 142 TAYLOR on the next volume, May 1820......Page 143 John Clare and C.H.TOWNSEND on plagiarism, May September 1820......Page 144 John Clare on the judgments of others, May 1820 July 1821......Page 145 More advice from ELIZA EMMERSON, July September 1820......Page 146 John Clare on one of his poems, December 1820......Page 148 TAYLOR on true poetry, January 1821......Page 149 DRURY on 'The Last of Autumn', January 1821......Page 150 Some opinions on 'The Peasant Boy', January 1821......Page 151 TAYLOR on the prospects of success, February 1821......Page 152 Comments on 'prettiness' in poetry, April May 1821......Page 153 Comments in anticipation of the new volume, April May 1821......Page 154 TAYLOR, from the Introduction to The Village Minstrel, 1821......Page 155 John Clare on popularity, September 1821......Page 160 Two views of Clare, Literary Chronicle, October 1821......Page 164 From an unsigned review, Monthly Magazine, November 1821......Page 169 TAYLOR on Clare, London Magazine, November 1821......Page 176 From an unsigned review, European Magazine, November 1821......Page 184 Unsigned review, New Monthly Magazine, November 1821......Page 186 From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review, January 1822......Page 187 TOWNSEND on The Village Minstrel, January 1822......Page 191 John Clare on the disappointing response, February 1822......Page 192 An admirer on The Village Minstrel, April 1822......Page 193 CHARLES LAMB on the 'true rustic style', August 1822......Page 194 The REV. W.ALLEN on Clare, 1823......Page 195 John Clare on the neglect of true genius, August 1824......Page 201 CHARLES ELTON, 'The Idler's Epistle to John Clare', 1824......Page 202 ELIZA EMMERSON comments on 'Superstition's Dream', January 1822......Page 206 GILCHRISTona magazine poem by Clare, February 1822......Page 208 TAYLOR on the need to avoid vulgarity, February 1822......Page 209 Some comments on 'The Parish', February May 1823......Page 210 Two brief comments on a sonnet by 'Percy Green', July 1823......Page 212 JAMES HESSEY on The Shepherd's Calendar, October 1823, November 1824......Page 213 H.F.CARY on The Shepherd's Calendar, January 1824......Page 215 TAYLOR on The Shepherd's Calendar, March 1825 March 1826......Page 216 A 'chorus of praise' for Clare, December 1826......Page 217 ELIZA EMMERSON on Clare, December 1826......Page 218 John Clare, the Preface to The Shepherd's Calendar, 1827......Page 219 Unsigned notice, Literary Gazette, March 1827......Page 220 JOSIAH CONDER, unsigned review, Eclectic Review, June 1827......Page 221 Unsigned notice, London Weekly Review, June 1827......Page 225 Unsigned review, Literary Chronicle, October 1827......Page 227 Some comments on 'Autumn' and 'Summer Images', January 1828 July 1831......Page 230 THOMAS PRINGLE on Clare and fashion, August 1828......Page 231 GEORGE DARLEY and John Clare on action in poetry, 1829......Page 232 DERWENT COLERIDGE on Clare, January 1831......Page 233 Some practical advice, February 1831......Page 234 John Clare on Southey's view of uneducated poets, March 1831......Page 235 THOMAS CROSSLEY, a sonnet to Clare, December 1831......Page 236 John Clare on ambition and independence, November 1832......Page 237 John Clare, the Preface to The Rural Muse, May 1835......Page 239 Unsigned notice, Athenaeum, July 1835......Page 240 Unsigned notice, Literary Gazette, July 1835......Page 242 JOHN WILSON, unsigned review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1835......Page 244 Two readers on The Rural Muse, July 1835......Page 257 Unsigned notice, New Monthly Magazine, August 1835......Page 258 Unsigned review, Druids' Monthly Magazine, 1835......Page 259 THOMAS DE QUINCEY on Clare, December 1840......Page 264 CYRUS REDDING visits John Clare, May 1841......Page 266 EDWIN PAXTON HOOD on Clare, 1851......Page 276 A biographical sketch of Clare, 1856......Page 285 Clare in passing, January 1857......Page 286 JOHN PLUMMER on a forgotten poet, May 1861......Page 287 JOHN ASKHAM on Clare, 1863, 1864......Page 290 JOHN DALBY, a poem on Clare, June 1864......Page 292 PLUMMER, again, on Clare, July 1864......Page 293 SPENCER T.HALL on Clare and Bloomfield, March 1866......Page 294 A female audience for John Clare, February 1867......Page 301 An American view of a peasant poet, November 1869......Page 304 The doomed poet, 1873......Page 306 From some reviews of Cherry's Life and Remains, 1873......Page 308 Clare and the soul of the people, 1873, 1884......Page 311 Some late nineteenth century views of Clare, 1887, 1893, 1897......Page 317 NORMAN GALE, a rhapsodic view, 1901......Page 318 ARTHUR SYMONS on Clare, 1908......Page 320 The distinction between early and late Clare, February 1909......Page 328 Clare as a poet of greatness, 1910......Page 329 EDWARD THOMAS on Clare, 1906, 1910, 1917......Page 330 ALAN PORTER, a violent view, May 1920......Page 339 SAMUEL LOOKER on Clare's genius, September, October 1920......Page 341 J.C.SQUIRE, with reservations, January 1921......Page 342 H.J.MASSINGHAM on Clare's uniqueness, January 1921......Page 344 J.MIDDLETON MURRY, an enthusiastic view, January 1921......Page 348 ROBERT LYND on Clare and Mr Hudson, January 1921......Page 359 EDMUND GOSSE, a dissentient view, January 1921......Page 362 Clare and Keats, February 1921......Page 365 MAURICE HEWLETT on Clare's derivations, March 1921......Page 368 HEWLETT on Clare as peasant poet (again), 1924......Page 376 J.MIDDLETON MURRY on Clare and Wordsworth, August 1924......Page 378 PORTER on a book of the moment, August 1924......Page 383 PERCY LUBBOCK, a hesitant view, September 1924......Page 388 GOSSE, again, October 1924......Page 391 EDMUND BLUNDEN on Clare, 1929, 1931......Page 395 Clare's dream, February 1935......Page 401 JOHN SPEIRS on Clare's limitations, June 1935......Page 403 H.J.MASSINGHAM on the labourer poets, 1942......Page 406 W.K.RICHMOND on Clare, 1947......Page 407 GEOFFREY GRIGSON on Clare, 1950......Page 423 ROBERT GRAVES on Clare as a true poet, 1955......Page 432 Clare as an intruder into the canon, April 1956......Page 435 Clare as a lyric poet, 1956......Page 440 More doubts about Clare, 1958......Page 444 Harold Bloom on Clare, 1962......Page 447 Some centenary comments, 1964......Page 458 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 463 INDEX......Page 464