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John Clare is known as the “first deep ecological writers in the English literary tradition” (McKusick as cited in Morrison, 2002). He wrote “The Lament of Swordy Well” in the early 1820 ...
The Lament of Swordy Well is a poem written by John Clare in the 1830s. Synopsis. Clare personifies an old limestone quarry and heath that was close to his home in Helpston, Northamptonshire, and, using its voice, speaks of the despair it felt at the hardships of the poor and the land around it ever since it has been enclosed by the local ...
May 28, 2022 · John Clare – The Lament of Swordy Well. Just over a mile from the Northamptonshire village of Helpston, where the so-called peasant poet John Clare was born, baptised and buried, lies a peculiar, teeming patch of uncultivated ground. Westbound drivers passing the mouth of it on the farm-lined road between Peterborough and Stamford might catch ...
The Lament of Swordy Well (I) Swaddywell, or Swordywell as it was known 200 years ago when John Clare grew up, lived and worked nearby in Helpston, had been the site of a quarry since Roman times. It takes its name from a nearby spring where an ancient sword was reputedly found. In medieval times, quarries like Swaddywell would have provided ...
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Jul 27, 2021 · City Culture Peterborough and Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery proudly present this series of poetry recordings. These recordings of John Clare’s poems were...
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University of California, Davis. The third stanza of Clare's The Lament of Swordy Well But the rest of the poem is spoken from an unspecified introduces a speaker or speaking voice: "I'm swordy well a place, a site loosely localized but not precisely embodied or piece of land"(Oxford Authors[1984] 147). Not a tree, a readily open to visualization.
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John Clare. 1793–1864. Original Artwork: Engraving after Hilton. (Photo by Edward Gooch Collection/Getty Images) 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 ...
