Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, the 'Northamptonshire peasant poet', whose writing was as celebrated as his life was humble. Show more In a programme first broadcast in 2017 ...

John Clare, affectionately known as the ‘peasant poet’, is a literary gem whose ... and reference numbers can be found on the online database. For assistance, call 01733 864160 or email ...

John Clare (1793–1864) was a straddler of eras. Unlike Scott, however — who was anchored in Romanticism while pointing to the Victorian Pre-Raphaelites — Clare was a poetic outlier: the sole occupant ...

John Clare was born in Helpston ... but of much more value are the various collections of Clare's poems (over 3,000 in all) easily available all over the world; in book or virtual form.

John Clare (1793-1864 ... Poverty caused or exacerbated his health problems, and he lost his mind. Yet Clare is an extraordinary poet, with a brilliant eye for natural detail and a superb ear ...

A review of I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by Jonathan Bate. The life span of John Clare (1793–1864) runs from Pitt to Palmerston, Washington to Lincoln, Blake and Burns to Trollope ...

IT WAS the young Edmund Blunden who, after the First World War, went to Peterborough to release Clare's long-imprisoned poems to the world. Blunden had published Sketches in the Life of John Clare by ...

John Clare was born in Helpston ... However he was able to learn to read and write and had a natural gift for poetry. His poems are inspired by his love of, and closeness to, nature.