John Clare and Other Studies

First edition, first printing. 252pp. In plain green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. 8vo Boards gently rubbed and rounded at corners and tips of a lightly sunned spine. Text block edges and page margins toned, endpapers more markedly, else internally neat, clean and tight. A selection of literary essays and critical studies including The Poetry of John Clare; The Case of John Clare; The Madness of Christopher Smart; Shakespeare and Love; Marcel Proust, Stendhal; The End of Herman Melville; The Mortal Moon; The Creation of Falstaff, etc.