Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Poetry’s Variety: John Clare and the Poetic Scene in the 1820s and 1830s

Chapter 3 ‘Sweet the Merry Bells Ring Round’: John Clare’s Songs for the Drawing Room

Chapter 4 ‘Sea Songs Love Ballads &c &c’: John Clare and Vernacular Song

Chapter 5 John Clare’s Landforms

Chapter 6 John Clare’s Ear: Metres and Rhythms

Chapter 8 John Clare’s Dynamic Animals

Chapter 9 Multispecies Work in John Clare’s ‘Birds Nesting’ Poems

Chapter 10 Biosemiosis and Posthumanism in John Clare’s Multi-Centred Environments

Chapter 11 Common Distress: John Clare’s Poetic Strain

Chapter 12 ‘fancys or feelings’: John Clare’s Hypochondriac Poetics

Chapter 13 ‘A Song in the Night’: Reconsidering John Clare’s Later Asylum Poetry