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 ...

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 ...

John Clare's poetry praised the simple pleasures of rural life and attacked the encroaching industrial world. In the poem I Am he sets out his feelings of alienation, both mentally and politically, ...

When John Clare (1793-1864) visited London in the spring of 1820, he was a cause celebre. His first volume of poems had just been published to great acclaim, and Clare — an agricultural laborer who ...

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, peasant poet of rural Northamptonshire, was the son of an agricultural labourer. Aside from his poetry, which was a life-long obsession, he was in turn a thresher, bird-scarer, plough boy, ...

Today, Sara Nicholson reads a poem by John Clare, titled “I Am!” One of the best-known working class poets in the Romantic period, Clare penned some of his work, including today’s poem, while confined ...

Enter the asylum room of forgotten 19th century "peasant" poet and visionary John Clare - where madness, laughter and genius combine. In this powerful immersive theatrical experience, the walls of ...