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Matthew James Chapman d. 1865
Barbadoes and other poems. 1833.
Jephtha’s daughter: a dramatic poem. 1834.
The Greek pastoral poets. Tr Chapman 1836; Hendon 1853 (as Idylls
of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Bohn Lib, with J. Banks), 1866,
1881.
Hebrew idyls and dramas. 1866.
Author of medical pbns.
John Clare 1793–1864
By far the largest collections of Clare mss are in Northampton Public Library
and Peterborough Museum; see [D. Powell], Catalogue of the John
Clare collection in the Northampton Public Library, Northampton
1964, and Margaret Grainger, A descriptive catalogue of the John
Clare collection in Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery,
Peterborough 1973. For detailed accounts of other ms collections see
IELM 4 pt 1; Barbara Rosenbaum’s entry also includes details of periodical
and magazine publication of Clare’s poems, where appropriate and where
known.
Bibliographies
Blunden, E. and A. Porter. In John Clare: poems chiefly from manuscript,
ed Blunden and Porter 1920.
Powell, D. A bibliography of the writings of John Clare. Unpbd
Diploma in Librarianship thesis, London Univ 1953.
Crossan, G. In BB and Mag Notes 32, 1975, rptd with Addenda in
Crossan, A relish for eternity, Salzburg 1976.
Dendurent, H. O. John Clare: a reference guide. Boston 1978.
Estermann, B. H. John Clare: an annotated primary and secondary
bibliography. New York 1985.
Collections and selections
Cherry, J. L. Life and remains of John Clare. 1873.
Poems by John Clare. Ed A. Symons 1908.
John Clare: poems chiefly from manuscript. Ed E. Blunden and A.
Porter 1920.
Madrigals and chronicles: newly found poems by John Clare. Ed E.
Blunden 1924.
Poems. Ed J. W. Tibble 2 vols 1935.
Poems of John Clare’s madness. Ed G. Grigson 1949.
Selected poems. Ed G. Grigson 1950 (ML).
Selected poems. Ed J. Reeves 1954.
Selected poems. Ed J. W. and A. Tibble 1965 (EL).
Later poems. Ed E. Robinson and G. Summerfield, Manchester
1964.
Selected poems and prose. Ed E. Robinson and G. Summerfield
1966, 1967 (new enlarged edn).
Selected poems. Ed E. Feinstein 1968.
John Clare. Ed E. Robinson and D. Powell, Oxford 1984 (Oxford
Authors).
Later poems. Ed E. Robinson, D. Powell and M. Grainger 2 vols
Oxford 1984.
Early poems. Ed E. Robinson, D. Powell and M. Grainger. 2 vols
Oxford 1989.
Selected poetry. Ed G. Summerfield, Harmondsworth 1990.
Cottage tales. Ed E. Robinson, D. Powell and P. M. S. Dawson,
Ashington 1993.
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Proposals for publishing a collection of trifles in verse. Market
Deeping 1818.
Poems descriptive of rural life and scenery. Introd by J. Taylor,
London and Stamford 1820 (3 edns), 1821. Significant textual variants
in each edn.
reviews: 1820: (O. Gilchrist) London Mag, Jan; New Times, Jan;
Literary Chron, Jan; Northampton Mercury, Jan; Morning Post,
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle | John Clare
Feb, Mar, May; NMM, Mar; Monthly Rev, Mar; Monthly Mag
Mar; (J. Scott) London Mag, Mar; (J. Conder) Eclectic Rev, Apr;
Lady’s Monthly Museum, Apr; (O. Gilchrist) Quart Rev, May;
Guardian, May; (J. G. Lockhart) Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag,
June; Br Critic, June; Antijacobin Rev, June.
The village minstrel and other poems. Introd by J. Taylor 2 vols 1821,
1823.
reviews: 1821: Br Critic, June; Literary Gazette, Oct; Literary
Chron, Oct; GM, Oct; Monthly Mag, Nov; (J. Taylor) London Mag,
Nov; European Mag, Nov; NMM, Nov; 1822: (J. Conder) Eclectic
Rev, Jan.
The parish.Ed E. Robinson, Harmondsworth 1985. Written 1822–4;
unpbd in Clare’s lifetime.
The shepherd’s calendar; with village stories, and other poems.
1827; ed E. Robinson and G. Summerfield 1964, 1993 (rev).
Reviews 1827: Literary Gazette, Mar; (J. Conder) Eclectic Rev,
June; London Weekly Rev, June; Literary Chron Oct.
Proposals for publishing . . . The midsummer cushion. Helpstone
1832.
The midsummer cushion. Ed A. Tibble and R. K. R. Thornton,
Ashington 1979, 1990 (rev). Written 1832; unpbd in Clare’s lifetime.
The rural muse: poems. 1835.
Reviews 1835: Athenaeum, July; Literary Gazette, July; (J. Wilson,
rptd with some alterations in his The recreations of Christopher
North, 1864); Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag, July; NMM, Aug;
Druids’ Monthly Mag.
The rural muse. Ed R. K. R. Thornton, Ashington 1982.
For further details of reviews see Dendurent and Estermann,
Bibliographies, above; many are rptd in Clare: the critical heritage, ed
M. Storey 1973.
Letters, journals etc
Sketches in the life . . . written by himself. Ed E. Blunden 1931.
Prose. Ed J. W. and A. Tibble 1951.
Letters. Ed J. W. and A. Tibble 1951.
The journals, essays, and the journey from Essex. Ed A. Tibble,
Manchester 1980.
John Clare’s birds. Ed E. Robinson and R. Fitter, Oxford 1982.
Autobiographical writings. Ed E. Robinson. Oxford 1983.
The natural history prose writings. Ed M. Grainger, Oxford 1983.
Letters. Ed M. Storey, Oxford 1985.
Selected letters. Ed M. Storey, Oxford 1988, rptd 1990.
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Allen, W. Four letters to Lord Radstock on the poems of Clare. 1823.
De Quincey, T. In his literary reminiscences, Tait’s Mag, Dec 1840.
Redding, C. Clare the poet. Eng Jnl, May 1841.
Hood, E. P. Clare, the peasant poet. In his Literature of labour, 1851.
Baker, A. E. Northamptonshire glossary. 2 vols 1854.
Watts, A. (ed), Men of the times. 1856.
Mitford, M. R. Recollections. Vol 1 1857.
Obituary. GM, July 1864.
Martin, F. W. Life of John Clare. 1865; ed E. Robinson and G.
Summerfield 1965.
Hall, S. T. Bloomfield and Clare. In Biographical sketches, Burnley
1873.
Heath, R. Types of English agricultural life. In his The English
peasant, 1893.
Thomas, E. Women, nature and poetry. In his Feminine influence on
the English poets, 1910.
Thomas, E. John Clare. In his A literary pilgrim in England. 1917.
Tibble, J. W. and A. John Clare: a life. 1932, 1972 (rev).
Chapple, A. J. V. Some unpublished poetical manuscripts of Clare.
YULG, 31 1956.
Robinson, E. and G. Summerfield. J. Taylor’s editing of the
Shepherd’s calendar. RES 14, 1963.
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