John Clare Weblog

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.

Swifter than thought

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Where the deer with their shadows passed swifter than thought,

And the hare from the braken went limping along,

Where the pheasant's red eye for a moment was caught,

Then vanished away like a spinning bee's song.

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