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Professor Simon Kövesi. Professor of English and Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies (English Literature) email: Simon.Kovesi@glasgow.ac.uk. Import to contacts. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739. Biography. Research interests. Publications. Supervision. Professional activities & recognition.
Jan 18, 2024 · Robinson’s legacy is secure: his rigorous scholarly editions, born of a lifetime’s dedication to the poet, are the bedrock of contemporary Clare scholarship. But now that the long saga of the disputed copyright claim is finally over, a new generation of editors can get to work on Clare’s poems, and freely so.
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- What first drew you to John Clare?
- In your new book, you contend that ‘nature, feeling, fidelity persist as limitations on readings of Clare’, tracing the longstanding currency of characterisations such as ‘down-to-earth’ that serve to place and constrain him.
- In seeking to move beyond that echoing phrase from By Our Selves – ‘John Clare was a minor nature poet who went mad’ – which occluded aspects of Clare’s life and art do you think should be emphasised more strongly?
- Which of Clare’s works do you think are particularly ripe for reconsideration from a broader range of perspectives? Which texts would you select for an undergraduate seminar to try and give a balanced sense of his value and achievements?
Authors: Simon Kövesi. Bases its argument on the most comprehensive assessment of the critical landscape in John Clare studies to date. Critiques the core issues in the established reception of John Clare - such as class, place, nature, sexuality, textuality - and through close analysis of symptomatic examples, theorises original responses and ...
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Feb 20, 2017 · mon Kövesi and Scott McEathron. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xii1244. This fine collection of essays exemplifies, as the editors note in their in-troduction, the “striking variety” of Clare’s writings and the “interpretive capaciousness” of this fertile moment in Clare scholarship (10, 9). Rang-
'Simon Kövesi’s and Scott McEathron’s collection represents an engaging and timely contribution to Clare studies, one most rewarding for the way it testifies to Clare’s ‘ongoing status as an uncategorizable literary and social misfit’.'
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