John Clare
John Clare
John Clarewas 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. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century, and he is now often considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 July 1793
I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do with—they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I should mention them in my writings and I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.
I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.
I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.
The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
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I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.
And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.
I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
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Love lies beyond / The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew! / I love the fond, / The faithful, and the true.