The Great Poets: John Clare
Written by John Clare
Narrated by David Shaw-Parker
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John Clare was the forgotten Romantic poet, until the late twentieth century. Known by his contemporaries as the ‘Peasant Poet’ he recorded in his poems the natural landscape of rural England before the Industrial Revolution.
His poems rival Wordsworth’s for their sensitivity to nature and pantheism: ‘I feel a beautiful providence ever about me,’ Clare wrote.
But his life was a long struggle against poverty and mental collapse. Some of his finest poems were written in the local asylum.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poetry of John Clare I find to be one of the hidden gems in the Lexicon of Romantic English writers. His words bespoke passion, serious interest and reflection on living in the English Countryside and making simplicity seem beautiful with energy, delight in nature scenery. Clare is a poet to me who had quite a difficult time being understood and free to wander during his life. But upon looking closer John Clare wrote and lived part of the artistic Truth that is England's beauty, rurality. Not concentrating on his mental health disability, He deserves a listen and the narrator is great. Clare's poetry now seemingly belongs to a part of the 'Tortured Artist' myth or legacy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The best poems on birds and nature I've ever read.