Books by John (Nottingham Trent University) Goodridge

John Goodridge examines some of the ways in which John Clare perceived and represented two communities, that of his native village, whose culture, ecology and natural environment it was his life's principal work to record, and the community of poets who inspired him.

John Goodridge explores the role of rural poetry in eighteenth-century literary culture. He examines the purpose of rural poetry, and how it relates to the real world, analyses accounts of rural labour by self-taught poets, and reveals unexpected links between rural poetry and agricultural and folkloric developments of the time.