Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of the labourer's life, the wheatfields and hedgerows of his village in Northamptonshire. This authoritative and engaging selection includes poems from every stage of Clare's poetic career, organised by theme, from "Birds and Beasts" to "Madhouses, Prisons and Whorehouses".
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[Clare] lived near the abyss but resolved extreme experience into something gentle. -- Seamus Heaney
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John Clare (1793 - 1864), the son of a Northamptonshire labourer, worked variously as a ploughboy, reaper, and thresher. He began writing verse at the age of 13 and had his first book of poems published in 1820. His suffered from severe bouts of melancholy and died in Northamptonshire Lunatic Asylum. Geoffrey Summerfield teaches English at New York University. He has spent many years working on the texts of Clare's poetry and is a leading authority on the poet.
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Clare's day is the day of the agricultural labourer- rising with the sunrise and marking the passage of time not with watch or clock but with shifts of light, the passage of the sun, the activities of birds and beasts, the rhythms of manual labour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Clare's day is the day of the agricultural labourer- rising with the sunrise and marking the passage of time not with watch or clock but with shifts of light, the passage of the sun, the activities of birds and beasts, the rhythms of manual labour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rural muse, old wigs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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