John Clare

Life

Born: 13 July 1793

Died: 20 May 1864

Biography

John Clare was an English labouring-class poet, much of whose work is focussed on the English countryside and the disruption to the rural way of life caused by the Agricultural Revolution in the early nineteenth century.

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Settings of text by John Clare

• A John Clare Calendar (Geoff Allan)
• A stranger once did bless the earth (Henry Carey)
• I am (Kathryn Rose)
• With a glorious eye (Robert Page)

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