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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A green wood side
I wandered down a green wood side On Sunday noon in spring Where little birds their dwellings hide & Thrushes sweetly sing The moss so green round Hazel roots The Primrose by its side That in its brimstone livery shoots In bunches far and wide
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