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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Adieu!
I left the little birds And sweet lowing of the herds, And couldn't find out words, Do you see, To say to them good-bye, Where the yellowcups do lie; So heaving a deep sigh, Took to sea....
I left the little birds
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