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    John Clare, herbalism, and elegy

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    Authors
    Lafford, Erin
    Affiliation
    University of Derby
    Issue Date
    2020
    
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    Abstract
    Discussions of Clare’s engagement with botany often trace his fraught relationship with taxonomy, exploring his admiration for common names over the ‘dark system’ of Linnaean classification. This essay expands understanding of Clare’s botanical imagination by considering how he brings his botanical ‘taste’ to bear on the flower as a key figure of elegiac consolation. I refocus attention on his formative preference for pre-Linnaean herbalism and explore how it informs his engagement with elegiac tradition and imagery, especially in relation to Gray’s ‘Elegy’. I attend to how herbalism is brought into relationship with poetic representations of the floral, focussing especially on the connection between Clare’s preference for herbals and Elizabeth Kent’s Flora Domestica. I then discuss ‘Cauper Green’ and ‘The Village Doctress’ (Clare’s most sustained poetic discussions of herbalism) as elegies that try to reconcile the finite temporality of human life with the regenerative life cycles of plants and their flowers.
    Citation
    Lafford, E. (2020). 'John Clare, herbalism, and elegy'. Romanticism, 26(2), pp. 202-213.
    Publisher
    Edinburgh University Press
    Journal
    Romanticism
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624717
    DOI
    10.3366/rom.2020.0465
    Additional Links
    https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/rom.2020.0465
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1354-991X
    EISSN
    1750-0192
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.3366/rom.2020.0465
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