ABSTRACT

This book presents Clare's poetry exactly as he wrote it, and includes selections from his `mad' poems as well as his earlier descriptions of birds, animals and village life.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

ByMerryn, Raymond Williams

part 1|177 pages

John Clare

chapter |6 pages

Helpstone

ByJohn Clare, John Clare

chapter |4 pages

‘I was Born at Helpstone’

ByJohn Clare

chapter |3 pages

Noon

ByJohn Clare

chapter |3 pages

The Harvest Morning

ByJohn Clare

chapter |7 pages

The Lamentations of Round-Oak Waters

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

From Summer Evening

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

My Mary

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

‘Grammar’

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Summer

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Proposals for Building a Cottage

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Langley Bush

ByJohn Clare

chapter |8 pages

The Woodman

ByJohn Clare

chapter |3 pages

Childish Recollections

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Written in November

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

The Gipseys Camp

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

‘My First Attempts at Poetry’

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

From the Village Minstrel

ByJohn Clare

chapter |3 pages

Helpston Green

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Noon

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

From Rural Evening

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

‘Going for a Soldier’

ByJohn Clare

chapter |3 pages

From the Fate of Genius

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

A Prophet is Nothing in his Own Country

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

From Winter

ByJohn Clare

chapter |5 pages

The Last of March

ByJohn Clare, Lolham Brigs

chapter |3 pages

To a Fallen ELM

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

From a Sunday with Shepherds and Herdboys

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

From the Autobiography

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

The Mores

ByJohn Clare

chapter |7 pages

The Lament of Swordy Well

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

From the Progress of Ryhme

ByJohn Clare

chapter |10 pages

From the Parish

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

To the Snipe

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Woodman

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

The Cottager

ByJohn Clare

chapter |10 pages

From the Shepherd’s Calendar

ByJohn Clare

chapter |5 pages

From Childhood

ByJohn Clare

chapter |3 pages

‘Memories of Childhood’

ByJohn Clare

chapter |3 pages

From Summer Images

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

From the Summer Shower

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

The Flood

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Mist in the Meadows

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Emmonsails Heath in Winter

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

England, 1830

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Schoolboys in Winter

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

The Foddering Boy

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Winter Evening

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Sand Martin

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Thrushes Nest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |3 pages

The Pettichaps Nest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

The Yellow Hammers Nest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

‘Snakes’

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Hedge Sparrow

ByJohn Clare

chapter |3 pages

From the Flitting

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

Remembrances

ByJohn Clare

chapter |4 pages

The Fens

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Ragwort

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Mouse’s Nest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Sheep in Winter

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Wild Bees’ Nest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Stone Pit

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Wild Duck’s Nest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Green Woodpecker’s Nest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Woodpecker’s Nest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Puddock’s Nest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Groundlark

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Marten

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Fox

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

The Badger

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Hedgehog

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Vixen

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Water Lilies

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Gipsy Camp

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

London Versus Epping Forest

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

‘Byron’s Funeral

ByJohn Clare

chapter |10 pages

Don Juan a Poem

ByJohn Clare

chapter |7 pages

Journey Out of Essex

ByJohn Clare

chapter |6 pages

From Child Harold

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Tis Martinmas from Rig to Rig

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Lord Hear my Prayer when Trouble Glooms

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Mary

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Song

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

Song Last Day

ByJohn Clare

chapter |2 pages

I Am

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Crow

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

There is a Charm in Solitude that Cheers

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Peasant Poet

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Lines on ‘Cowper’

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

The Winters Come

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Fragment

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

To John Clare

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Letter to James Hipkins

ByJohn Clare

chapter |1 pages

Birds Nests

ByJohn Clare