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John Clare: A Biography
Jonathan Bate (Picador)
John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet
that England has ever produced. No one has written more powerfully
of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and
unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject
of a comprehensive literary biography. Clare’s ringing
voice – quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous – emerges
in generous quotation from his letters, journals and autobiographical
writings. Jonathan Bate, the celebrated scholar of Shakespeare,
brings the complex man, his beloved work, and his ribald
world vividly to life.
Jonathan Bate was born in 1958 in Kent. He is the author
of The Genius of Shakespeare, The Song of the
Earth and a novel, The Cure for Love. He is
the Leverhulme Research Professor of English at the University
of Warwick and writes regularly for the Telegraph, the TLS
and the Independent.
He lives with his wife and family, near Stratford-upon-Avon.
Publicist: Camilla Elworthy, Picador 020 7014 6178 c.elworthy@macmillan.co.uk
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