John Clare

A POET IS BORN, NOT MADE
John Clare (illustrated by William Hilton, 1820)

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Clare Poems in RAP2

I Am
An Invite to Eternity
'O could I be as I have been'

John Clare's poetry to the Romantics...including himself

To William Wordsworth
To John Clare
To The Memory of John Keats
The Nightingale's Nest Not adressed to another romantic, but this is Clare's take on the popular bird

Prose by John Clare

Popularity in Authorship (1824)
Clare's Last letter A haunting statement of surrenderence

John Clare in RAP1 and RAP2

Life As An Echo: zmilner's E2 on the publication history of 'I Am'

Audience and Expectation in 'An Invite to Eternity': rfenning's essay in RAP1 about the scenario of transmission and intended audience in 'An Invite to Eternity'

Clare and the Ubiquitous Editor: rfenning's essay in RAP1 about the publication of history of 'An Invite to Eternity'

An Illustrated Invite to Eternity-key: rfenning's "synthesis of some of the ideas from the two above essays in pictures."

Interesting Links on the Web

John Clare Society Homepage

The John Clare Page at Nottingham Trent University perhaps the most extensive page on Clare on the web, and a good source for more of his poetry

Man out of time
Interesting review of a new book on Clare that talks about Clare's struggle for acceptance in the intellectual word and asks the question: "John Clare was once as famous a poet as John Keats. What happened?"

Clare and Natural History
A few excerpts from the master of the nautral world

Hay in art Yes, there's a site devoted to hay, and Clare is a big part of it

Pictures of John Clare

Bust of John Clare-image
Middle-aged Clare-image
Illustration of Clare-image
The only photograph of Clare-image
John Clare's Grave-image
The Northampton Asylum-image