East Hoathly makes a night of it
Marilyn Butler, 6 December 1984
The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765
edited by David Vaisey.
Oxford, 386 pp., £17.50, November 1984,0 19 211782 3 Show More
edited by David Vaisey.
Oxford, 386 pp., £17.50, November 1984,
John Clare’s Autobiographical Writings
edited by Eric Robinson.
Oxford, 185 pp., £7.95, September 1983,0 19 211774 2 Show More
edited by Eric Robinson.
Oxford, 185 pp., £7.95, September 1983,
John Clare: The Journals, Essays, and the Journey from Essex
edited by Anne Tibble.
Carcanet, 139 pp., £6.95, October 1980,0 85635 344 2 Show More
edited by Anne Tibble.
Carcanet, 139 pp., £6.95, October 1980,
The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare
edited by Margaret Grainger.
Oxford, 397 pp., £35, January 1984,0 19 818517 0 Show More
edited by Margaret Grainger.
Oxford, 397 pp., £35, January 1984,
John Clare and the Folk Tradition
by George Deacon.
Sinclair Browne, 397 pp., £15, February 1983,0 86300 008 8 Show More
by George Deacon.
Sinclair Browne, 397 pp., £15, February 1983,
“... common people going about their daily business. There’s the snatch of conversation in Henry IV, Part I when a couple of carriers grumble about the inn at Rochester, the worst on the road for fleas: ‘Why, they will allow us ne’er a jorden, and then we leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a loach.’ While this is a touch ... ”