From Helpston in rural Northamptonshire, John Clare was born in 1793. He is now regarded as the most important poet of the natural world from Britain. He wrote many poems, prose and letters about love, sex, corruption and politics, environmental and social change, poverty and folk life. Even in his 'madness', his talents were not diminished. Ronald Blythe, past President of the Clare Society, saw Clare as "... England's most articulate village voice".
Clare died, aged 71, in 1864.
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Weedlings wild
The hawthorns here were hung with may But still they seem in deader green The sun e'en seems to lose its way Nor knows the quarter it is in I dwell on trifles like a child I feel as ill becomes a man & still my thoughts like weedlings wild Grow up to blossom where they can
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