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Jan 10, 2019 · So here we’ve picked ten of John Clare’s best poems which offer an introduction to his idiosyncratic style and wonderful eye for detail, especially concerning the natural world. ‘ First Love ’.
John Clare is “the quintessential Romantic poet,” according to William Howard writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. With an admiration of nature and an understanding of the oral tradition, but with little formal education, Clare penned numerous poems and prose pieces, many of which were only published posthumously.
John Clare - Poems by the Famous Poet - All Poetry. 1793-1864 • Ranked #119 in the top 500 poets. John Clare was an English poet who wrote extensively about the English countryside and the impact of encroaching industrialization on rural life.
Poems by John Clare. Arthur Symons (Ed.) London, 1908; The Poems of John Clare - In two volumes. London, 1935; Selected Poems London, 1997; Works about Clare The only known photograph of Clare, 1862. In chronological order: Frederick Martin, The Life of John Clare, 1865; J. L. Cherry, Life and Remains of John Clare, 1873; Heath, Richard (1893).
I Am! By John Clare. I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes—. They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes. And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed. Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
The Skylark. By John Clare. The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside. The battered road; and spreading far and wide. Above the russet clods, the corn is seen. Sprouting its spiry points of tender green, Where squats the hare, to terrors wide awake, Like some brown clod the harrows failed to break. Opening their golden caskets to the sun,
John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption.
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