"In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...
Largely based on the transcripts made by William Knight and other amanuenses at Northampton , it emends the Knight punctuation in an attempt to get closer to Clare's lost manuscripts . The Early Poems of John Clare 1804–1822 , Volumes i ...
TO THE MEMORY OF BLOOMFIELD Sweet unassuming minstrel, not to thee The dazzling fashions of the day belong: Nature's wild pictures, field and cloud and tree And quiet brooks far distant from the throng In murmurs tender as the toiling ...
John Clare was the great Romantic 'peasant poet' - the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, confined in his ...
John Clare: The CriticalHeritage John Clare's library, held at Northampton Central Library Egerton Manuscript of Letters to Clare The Early Poems of John Clare, 1804–1822 The Letters of John Clare The Later Poems of John Clare, ...
The long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet" John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced.
Clare may perhaps have intended to enfold into the poem a little homage to Hannah Bloomfield, whose charming letter to him of 10 March 1825 thanking ... A spring, o'erhung with many a flower, The grey sand dancing in its bed, Embank'd ...
Eric Robinson, David Powell and P. M. S. Dawson (Ashington: Mid-Northumberland Arts Group; Manchester: Carcanet, 1993) The Early Poems of John Clare: 1804–1822, ed. Eric Robinson and David Powell, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, ...
THE WINTERS COME 1 Sweet chesnuts brown, like soleing leather turn, The larch trees, like the colour of the sun, That paled sky in the Autumn seem'd to burn. What a strange scene before us now does run, Red, brown, and yellow, ...
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