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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Life?
A shadow moving by ones side That would a substance seem That is yet is not - though descried Like skies beneath the stream A tree thats ever in the bloom Whose fruit is never rife A wish for joys that never come Such are the hope of Life
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