This is a single, long (2000 lines) poem which has never been published. Although Clare was a devout Anglican the work is a powerful attack on the abuses of the clergy, the dangers of religious fanaticism and religious hypocrisy.

The Parish: A Satire (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Clare, John

Literary

Penguin Classics

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. <ul>
<li> First time in Penguin Classics </li> <li> Landmark edition based on Clare's original manuscripts </li> <li> Includes introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary </li> </ul>

Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

History & Criticism

A selection of poems by John Clare who is known for his rural poems of village life. His poems depict natural life but are tinged with sadness and loss. Geoffrey Summerfield has edited the "Voices" series.

John Clare: Selected Poetry (Penguin Poetry Library)

Poetry

Penguin Uk

The Shepherd's Calendar

Oxford University Press

John Clare's Autobiographical Writings

After years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was generally not appreciated by his contemporaries, and his later mental instability further contributed to his loss of critical esteem. But the extraordinary range of his poetical gifts has restored him to the company of contemporaries like Lord Byron, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. This authoritative edition brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters and illustrates all aspects of his talent. It contains poems from all stages of his career, including love poetry and bird and nature poems. Written in his native Northamptonshire, Clare's work provides a fascinating reflection of rural society, often underscored by his own sense of isolation and despair. Clare's writings are presented with the minimum of editorial interference, and with a new introduction by the poet and scholar Tom Paulin.

Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

British & Irish

The poet, John Clare, who lived from 1793-1864, was the son of a Northamptonshire labourer and himself at various times a herd boy, militiaman, vagrant and unsuccessful farmer. He writes of the countryside and of village life with the special intensity of one who knows the land and its people intimately. "The Shepherd's Claendar", his most ambitious single poem, is both a classic of English poetry and a piece of social history, representing a statement about English country life from the point of view of its most silent representative - the agricultural labourer. To the modern reader "The Shepherd's Calendar" should be of interest because of the accuracy of its portrayal of natural life inthe different months of the year. It evokes natural life, using popular language, often derived from folk-songs and ballads. The book provides a sort of almanack of country life, detailing the tasks to be performed in each month of the year: ploughing in February, lambing in March, weeding in May, hay-making in June and so on. It also describes the flowers, the birds and the beasts to be found in hedgerow and field. It celebrates the festivals of the year - May Day games, shee-shearing feasts, Harvest Home and Christmas. As such, it will appeal to anyone who knows anything about nature in Britain or about farming life. This new edition of the text corrects numerous earlier misreadings as well as supplying substantial changes to "July" and "October". there is also a new introduction detailing the continuing importance of the poem to modern readers.

Selected Poems and Prose of John Clare

John Clare (The Oxford authors)

This ambitious collection of Clare's poetry and prose is based on thirty years' close study of the manuscripts and represents the full range of Clare's genius, including bird poems, nature observations, songs, ballads, social satire, reflections on folk customs, and intense expressions of the poet's search for identity.

John Clare (The ^AOxford Authors)

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John Clare's Autobiographical Writings (Oxford Paperbacks)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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The Parish: A Satire (Penguin Classics)

Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

John Clare: Selected Poetry (Penguin Poetry Library)

The Shepherd's Calendar

John Clare's Autobiographical Writings

Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

The Shepherd's Calendar

Selected Poems and Prose of John Clare

John Clare (The ^AOxford Authors)

John Clare's Autobiographical Writings (Oxford Paperbacks)