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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Schoolboys
The schoolboys still their morning ramble take To neighboring village school with playing speed Loitering with passtimes leisure till they quake Oft looking up the wild geese droves to heed Watching the letters which their journeys make Or plucking haws on which their fieldfares feed
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