1820 John Clare : Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery : Leather Binding

Poems: Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery

By John Clare

London; Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. Full leather binding, 8vo, gilt to all page edges, pp viii, 220. Marble endpapers and inner cloth joints.

CONDITION
The leatherbinding has been professionally rebacked at some time in the past and inner cloth joints inserted. The top of the title page has had a piece cut away (perhaps to hide previous ownership). All text present and pages good throughout. Seldom spotting to a few pages but generally good throughout. Overall a good copy.

John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption. His work underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th century; he is now often seen as a major 19th-century poet. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self."

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