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Clare had bought a copy of James Thomson's The Seasons and began to write poems and sonnets. In an attempt to hold off his parents' eviction from their home, Clare offered his poems to a local bookseller, Edward Drury, who sent them to his cousin, John Taylor of the Taylor & Hessey firm, which had published the work of John Keats.
The poem is known as Clare's "last lines" [4] and is his most famous. [5] The poem's title is used for a 2003 collection of Clare's poetry, I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by his biographer Jonathan Bate, [6] and it had previously been included in the 1992 Columbia University Press anthology, The Top 500 Poems. [7]
But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [2] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote no more than five. John Clare, whose early published poetry falls within this period, is a special case. Separate sections of sonnets appeared in all three of his published ...
Tibble was Clare's biographer and "indefatigable champion", [1] and an "anthologist and editor of neglected and forgotten work by John Clare", [2] along with her husband John. In 1932 their first book on Clare, John Clare: A Life, followed "five years patient research among the thousands of letters, poems, and prose fragments which Clare ...
In 1920, Blunden published a collection of poems, The Waggoner, and with Alan Porter, he edited the poems of John Clare (mostly from Clare's manuscript). [ 2 ] Blunden's next book of poems, The Shepherd , published in 1922, won the Hawthornden Prize , but his poetry, though well reviewed, did not provide enough to live on.
In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic movement are considered to be the group of poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the much older William Blake, followed later by the isolated figure of John Clare; also such novelists as Walter Scott from Scotland and ...
Clare was the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation for the changes taking place in rural England. [44] His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. [45]
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 parish. The poem is one of Clare's most famous protestation poems.