Selected Poems

1968-1996

By: John Clare

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Paperback | 6 April 2000 | Edition Number 1

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John Clare produced some of English poetry's most poignant and glorious lyrics. Writing not as an observer of nature but from an intimate knowledge of the wheatfields, hedgerows, and ditches of his village in Northamptonshire, he described animals, insects, trees, rivers, sunlight, and clouds with sublime sensitivity. But as enclosures and "improvements" came in the early nineteenth century, dismembering the rural landscape, his later poems became infused with a sense of disorientation and loss, and scattered with threads of madness. Clare's genius has been rediscovered by fellow poets in every generation since his death, from Dylan Thomas to Ted Hughes to Seamus Heaney.

First time in Penguin Classics
Landmark edition based on Clare's original manuscripts
Includes introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary

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"[Clare] lived near the abyss but resolved extreme experience into something gentle."

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