BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dawson, P. M. S. “John Clare.” Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide, edited by Michael O’Neill, pp. 167-80. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Extensive listing of the major textual editions, biographies, and critical studies in Clare scholarship.

BIOGRAPHIES

Lucas, John. John Clare. Plymouth, U.K.: Northcote House Publishers Ltd., 1994, 86 p.

Brief biography detailing Clare's life and works.

Storey, Edward. A Right to Song: The Life of John Clare. London: Methuen, 1982, 330 p.

Intensive study with twenty-three chapters devoted to individual aspects of Clare's life.

CRITICISM

Barker, Jonathan. “The Songs of Our Land Are Like Ancient Landmarks.” Agenda 22, Nos. 3 & 4 (Autumn-Winter, 1984-85): 78-89.

Reviews three contemporary collections of Clare's works.

Barrell, John. The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place, 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare. London: Cambridge at the University Press, 1972, 244 p.

An authoritative volume focusing on Clare's pre-asylum poetry within the context of the enclosure of Helpston.

Brownlow, Timothy. John Clare and Picturesque Landscape. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983, 158 p.

Explores various aspects of Clare's work from roughly 1821 to the beginning of his “asylum” period, 1841.

Clare, Johanne. John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987, 217 p.

Concentrates on Clare's early poems—those written between 1809 and 1837—claiming that these “pre-asylum” works most clearly represent the time in the poet's career “when he was still able to face life with courage, curiosity, and hope.”

Haughton, Hugh, Adam Phillips, and Geoffrey Summerfield, editors. John Clare in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 313 p.

Contains twelve critical essays by such modern scholars as James McKusick and Mark Storey, addressing a variety of aspects of Clare's work.

Storey, Mark. The Poetry of John Clare: A Critical Introduction. London: Macmillan Press, 1974, 228 p.

In-depth study of Clare's poetry with chapters devoted to each creative period in the poet's life.

Additional coverage of Clare's life and works can be found in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 55 and 96; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors Modules: Poets; and Poetry Criticism, Vol. 23.