Religia pól
Religion of the fields

John Clare’s eco-poetry

Author(s): Jacek Wiśniewski
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: John Clare; ecopoetry; nature; ecocriticism; romanticism
Summary/Abstract: The essay examines John Clare’s preoccupation with nature, and his very individual approach to the inspiration which the world of nature offers to a poet who is not a city dweller. His idiom is altogether different from that of the university educated Romantic poets. A natural genius and a poor peasant living and working in the country, he managed to write about nature around him, to describe its beauty, to show the fields, the birds and the beasts, but he also managed to use the esemplastic power of imagination to say important things about belief, society and politics.

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