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Spoken Word
John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century, and he is now often considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "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".
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Early Victorian Poetry | George Meredith / Charlotte Brontë & Emily Brontë / John Clare / Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read By Jill Balcon / Freda Dowie / Ian Holm / Gary Watson | 1968 | Album |
John Clare AU *1940 |
John Clare Du Bois |