John clare biography 1864 springfield

John Clare () is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world.

Toby Jones, Andrew Kötting (as a straw bear) and their merry men revive the wanderings and wonderings of Northamptonshire peasant poet John Clare.

It is an enticing tale.

The narrator is John Clare, “The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet” ().

In this new collection, Jeanette Lynes turns her attention to the life and work of John Clare (), the renowned poet of the countryside and one of.

It is an enticing tale....

Journal entries of John Clare

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John Clare (1793 - 1864) was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption.

His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self."

From 6th September 1824 until 11th September 1825 Clare kept a journal.

The first entry reads "I have determined this day of beginning a sort of journal to give my opinion of things I may read or see & set down any thoughts that may arise either in my reading at home or my musings in the Fields & this day must fill up a sort of Introduction for I have nothing else to set down all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho its very hot & fine"

The entries, with varia