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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Approach of Spring
Ive met the Winters biting breath In Natures wild retreat When Silence listens as in death & thought its wildness sweet & I have loved the Winters calm When frost has left the plain When suns that morning wakend warm Left eve to freeze again
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