Friends were still being added to the Lambs' circle late in their lives, including literary friends like John Clare
and Thomas Hood
. Charles corresponded with Mary Shelley
; ML
corresponded with Mary Matilda Betham
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Loudon
The title-page of Facts from the World of Nature quotes a passage in couplets from John Clare
about God creating the world and seeing that it was good, sustaining with his breath the unpillared skies...
Textual Features
Susanna Watts
The title-page quotes Pope
, who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron
(The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor
(The Squire's...
Textual Features
Alice Oswald
In a short introduction AO explains that her goal is the deep, slow process that put[s] our inner worlds in contact with the outer world. This process, she says, is dying out as repetitive physical...
Textual Production
Susanna Blamire
Spring, probably dating from the year 1786,
Blamire, Susanna. The Poetical Works. Woodstock Books, 1994.
96
is a poem whose first-hand natural observation is suggestive of the peasant poetJohn Clare
. It mixes personifications, human and non-human activity, a sense of...
Textual Production
Margiad Evans
ME
did some writing even after she moved to Sussex, but she dissipated her inadequate energy on competing projects: a play about Byron
, a short study of John Clare
, a few stories...
Textual Production
Elaine Feinstein
EF
has carried out a great deal of scholarly commentary of a kind best calculated to be useful to readers (though she did not finish her MA thesis on nineteenth-century sexual fantasists like Ouida
and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Wendy Cope
The Muse Strikes Back does not show WC
answering in anger. Her poem to John Clare
(written for the John Clare Society
) is a celebration and a declaration of kinship: Awake in the early...
Travel
Agnes Strickland
In the summer of 1850 AS
was in Scotland, not doing research but hunting royal relics. In fact, once Blackwell
became her publisher, she made frequent visits to Edinburgh. She made her own...
Timeline
By January 1820: John Clare published his first volume, Poems...
Writing climate item
By January 1820
John Clare
published his first volume, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, By . . . a Northamptonshire Peasant.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
22 (January 1820): 565
By 25 July 1835: John Clare, labourer-poet, published his...
Writing climate item
By 25 July 1835
John Clare
, labourer-poet, published his last volume, The Rural Muse.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
404 (1835): 566
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Texts
Clare, John. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. Taylor and Hessey, 1820.
Clare, John. The Rural Muse: Poems. Whittaker, 1835.