{"product_id":"i-am-the-selected-poetry-of-john-clare-9780374528690","title":"I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHail, humble Helpstone ... \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere dawning genius never met the day, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere useless ignorance slumbers life away\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnknown nor heeded, where low genius tries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbove the vulgar and the vain to rise.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Helpstone\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I Am\" The Selected Poetry of John Clare\u003c\/i\u003e is the first anthology of the great \"peasant poet\"'s remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers for two centuries: the tender chronicler of nature and childhood; the champion of folkways in the face of oppression; the passionate, sweet-tongued love-poet; and the lonely visionary confined, in old age and senility, to asylums.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Clare\u003c\/b\u003e (1793-1864) lived all his life in rural Northamptonshire. He is widely celebrated as one of England's great nature and folklife writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Bate\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Ovid\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) and \u003ci\u003eThe Genius of Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (1997). He is Leverhulme Research Professor and King Alfred Professor of English at the University of Warwick.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410793566482,"sku":"9780374528690","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5da1efb4-273d-4186-8e2a-9b2269aca107.jpg?v=1729307250","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-am-the-selected-poetry-of-john-clare-9780374528690","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}