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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Some 'gleanings'... from the archives
The new spring grass was high
The new pinks nest was seen
Where little padded lanes went bye
In hedges warm & green
When the golden evening came
& the tree tops like a flame
Glittered on the gazing eye
Like golden groves in a golden sky
The shepherd seeks the field
Where the awthorn hedges shield
The lane way to the open plain
& sets his fold of trays again
Some fragments from the 1830s

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