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 music
The brook goes winding like a snake Through many crooks & turns Loud are the gurgles which it makes Like music— & then mourns The thorn leans oer its mimic waves That oer the pebbles run The mimic foam in dark place raves Then crimples in the sun
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