Machine generated contents note: I.CLARE'S LYRIC TECHNIQUE -- 1.Sound, Language, and the Lyric Subject: The Middle-period Poems -- 2.Form and Structure: The Sonnets -- 3.Representing Absence: Time, Space, and the Language of Poetry in the Asylum Poems -- II.CLARE'S LYRIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 4.Arthur Symons: Mimesis after Aestheticism -- 5.Edmund Blunden: No Man's Land -- 6.John Ashbery: An Impossible Calque of Reality.
Summary
'Clare's Lyric' examines John Clare's lyric poems and their impact on the work of three twentieth-century poets: Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery.