A campaign group dedicated to protecting the countryside that inspired the famous Helpston poet John Clare is urging ...

Clare, a local poet, captured the beauty of the rural landscape and the changing seasons, but he also wrote about the destruction of nature in his time. Sam Carling MP on his visit to John Clare ...

Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and John Clare, and many others. Buy now£16.99, Waterstones 100 Poets ... stirring reflections on nature and mankind, this ...

From the chatter of humans, the madding crowd. It is small accident that our greatest Nature writers sought solitude. Wordsworth, famously, wandered as lonely as a cloud and fellow Romantic poet John ...

Frazier makes much of this fact and recounts the impediment it represented in John Montague’s schooling. He sees traces of this early trauma in the poetry and in the central metaphor of the ...

home of the brilliant peasant-poet John Clare, ‘the one true voice of nature from the English countryside.’ He visits that most beautiful of English/Welsh rivers, the Wye, from its ‘fast ...

It was a "core memory" and the first time the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States − the first Latina appointed to the role − felt a "deep connection" to nature. "It's been a long process ...

It’s the nature of nature writing that one ... I would also need an airdrop of Delphi’s The Complete Works of John Clare, the Romantic ‘peasant poet’ and a decent claim to be the first ...

Perhaps that’s why John Clare, the “peasant poet”, had so many urban readers. Close observations of what was, for him, everyday life became, for others, the evocation of a lost world, as in his ...

The nature 19th Century poet John Clare grew up in Helpston, Cambridgeshire, which at the time was part of Northamptonshire, and wrote about the loss of the scenery he loved as a child.