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John Clare
Author: John Clare
Series: The Great Poets
Narrator: David Shaw-Parker
Unabridged: 1 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 07/29/2013
Category: Poetry
Synopsis
John Clare was the forgotten Romantic poet, until the late twentieth century. Known by his contemporaries as the ‘Peasant Poet’ he recorded in his poems the natural landscape of rural England before the Industrial Revolution. His poems rival Wordsworth’s for their sensitivity to nature and pantheism: ‘I feel a beautiful providence ever about me,’ Clare wrote. But his life was a long struggle against poverty and mental collapse. Some of his finest poems were written in the local asylum.