English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1141 short lesson, about 20 seconds
John Clare
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The idea
John Clare, a farm labourer's son from Northamptonshire called "the Peasant Poet," published Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery in eighteen twenty. His biographer Jonathan Bate calls him the greatest labouring-class poet England has produced. Clare spent his later years in asylums.
In practice
A labourer writing the countryside.
Where people slip
Clare wrote from inside rural life.
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