Ebook: John Clare: the critical heritage

Cover -- JOHN CLARE: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE -- Copyright -- General Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- THE EARLY DAYS: 1818-20 -- 1. John Clare apologizes:?1818 -- 2. John Clare addresses the public: 1818 -- 3. John Clare on his hopes of success: 1818 -- 4. The problem of the 'Dedication' to Poems Descriptive: 1818 -- 5. Words of warning: 1820 -- 6. Octavius Gilchrist introduces Clare to the literary world: 1820 -- POEMS DESCRIPTIVE OF RURAL LIFE AND SCENERY: January 1820 -- 7. John Taylor, Introduction to Poems Descriptive -- 8. From an unsigned review, New Times 21: January 1820 -- 9. Octavius Gilchrist on Poems Descriptive: 1820 -- 10. Tributes in verse: 1820, 1821 -- 11. Advice on alterations and omissions: trouble with the native: 1820 -- 12. Eliza Emmerson on her admiration of 'Nature s Child': 1820 -- 13. Charles Mossop on the source of Clare's success: 1820 -- 14. From an unsigned review, New Monthly Magazine: March 1820, xiii, 326-30 -- 15. From an unsigned review, Monthly Review: March 1820, xci, 296-300 -- 16. Unsigned notice, Monthly Magazine: March 1820, xlix, 164 -- 17. John Scott, from an unsigned review, London Magazine: March 1820, i, 323-8 -- 18. John Clare and the Morning Post: 1820 -- 19. Eliza Emmerson on the certainty of ultimate success: 1820 -- 20. An enquirer after Clare's welfare: 1820 -- 21. Eliza Emmerson on critical reactions: 1820 -- 22. Octavius Gilchrist on having to write another article on Clare: 1820 -- 23. From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review: April 1820, n.s. xiii, 327-40 -- 24. James Plumptre on rural poetry according to particular principles: 1820 -- 25. From an unsigned review, Quarterly Review: May 1820, xxiii, 166-74 -- 26. Unsigned article, Guardian: 28 May 1820, i.;First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.