John Clare (1793-1864) was an agricultural labourer who rose to
fame as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet with the publication of
his first book of poems in 1820. He suffered from mental illness
and ended his days in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum. He is now
recognized as one of the great English Romantic poets whose writing
on rural society has a special power. Eric Robinson, together with
his associate editor David Powell, is editor of the mult-volume
Oxford English Texts edition of the Collected Poems of John Clare
and other selections of Clare's writings, including the Major Works
in Oxford World's Classics.
Handsomely illustrated.
*New Statesman*
This is a book to treasure.
*Harry Mead, Northern Echo*
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