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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Like hovel warm
The snow falls deep the Forest lies alone
The boy goes hasty for his load of brakes Then thinks upon the fire & hurries back The Gipsy knocks his hands & tucks them up & seeks his squalid camp half hid in snow Beneath the oak which breaks away the wind & bushes close with snow like hovel warm
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