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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Rain-drops
And full sweet it was to look How clouds misted o'er the hill Rain-drops how they dimp'd the brook Falling fast & faster still While the gudgeons darting by Cring'd 'neath water-grasses shade Startling as each nimble eye Saw the rings the dropples made
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