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John Clare, who lived most of his life in rural Northamptonshire, whose landscape was being transformed by enclosure, is taken as the focus of different attitudes to landscape as something to have a 'taste' for. This 1972 text brings 'taste' into contact with the social and economic bases of life.

Table of Contents
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introductory note; 1. The idea of landscape in the eighteenth century; 2. The landscape of agricultural improvement; 3. The sense of place in the poetry of John Clare; Appendix: John Clare and the enclosure of Helpston; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 2/17/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521181327, 978-0521181327
      ISBN10: 0521181321
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      John Clare, who lived most of his life in rural Northamptonshire, whose landscape was being transformed by enclosure, is taken as the focus of different attitudes to landscape as something to have a 'taste' for. This 1972 text brings 'taste' into contact with the social and economic bases of life.

      Table of Contents
      List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introductory note; 1. The idea of landscape in the eighteenth century; 2. The landscape of agricultural improvement; 3. The sense of place in the poetry of John Clare; Appendix: John Clare and the enclosure of Helpston; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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