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Title: The Great Poets: John Clare
Author: John Clare
Narrator: David Shaw Parker, Thomas Goose
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1:02:00
Language: English
Release date: 07-24-2013
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Summary:
John Clare was the forgotten Romantic poet, until the late twentieth century. Known by his contemporaries as the ‘Peasant Poet’ he recorded in his poems the natural landscape of rural England before the Industrial Revolution. His poems rival Wordsworth’s for their sensitivity to nature and pantheism: ‘I feel a beautiful providence ever about me,’ Clare wrote. But his life was a long struggle against poverty and mental collapse. Some of his finest poems were written in the local asylum.
