When John Clare died of a stroke on May 20 1864, aged 70, he was almost a forgotten figure. For 23 years he had been confined in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, which he called "the ...
John Clare (1793-1864) had a miserable life. He was a field laborer who left school at the age of 12. Poverty caused or exacerbated his health problems, and he lost his mind. Yet Clare is an ...
Clare’s legacy has long existed under the shadow of easy clichés: he was a poet of peasant origins (a relative rarity), and he spent the last 30 years of his life institutionalized for mental illness, ...
John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate Picador £25, pp575 John Clare was a Romantic's dream come true. While Coleridge and Wordsworth had declared that modern poetry should speak with the voice of ...
Though he has steadily furnished anthology pieces, and has been cited repeatedly by John Ashbery as an influence, only recently have scholars and critics, often inspired by Clare's stands on behalf of ...
A review of I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by Jonathan Bate. The life span of John Clare (1793–1864) runs from Pitt to Palmerston, Washington to Lincoln, Blake and Burns to Trollope ...
Matthew Sweet talks to Iain Sinclair about poet John Clare, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses the implications of the 'right to be forgotten' legislation. Show more Iain Sinclair is marking ...
Marking the 200th anniversary of John Clare's first book, musician Jon Boden investigates his involvement in the folk culture they describe and the influence of this on his poems. Show more John Clare ...
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