ABSTRACT

This book presents Clare's poetry exactly as he wrote it, and includes selections from his `mad' poems as well as his earlier descriptions of birds, animals and village life.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

part 1|177 pages

John Clare

chapter |6 pages

Helpstone

chapter |4 pages

'I was Born at Helpstone'

chapter |3 pages

Noon

chapter |3 pages

The Harvest Morning

chapter |4 pages

From Summer Evening

chapter |4 pages

My Mary

chapter |2 pages

'Grammar'

chapter |2 pages

Summer

chapter |2 pages

Langley Bush

chapter |8 pages

The Woodman

chapter |2 pages

Written in November

chapter |2 pages

The Gipseys Camp

chapter |2 pages

'My First Attempts at Poetry'

chapter |3 pages

Helpston Green

chapter |1 pages

Noon

chapter |1 pages

From Rural Evening

chapter |2 pages

‘Going for a Soldier’

chapter |2 pages

From Winter

chapter |3 pages

To a Fallen ELM

chapter |2 pages

From the Autobiography

chapter |4 pages

The Mores

chapter |10 pages

From the Parish

chapter |4 pages

To the Snipe

chapter |1 pages

The Woodman

chapter |4 pages

The Cottager

chapter |5 pages

From Childhood

chapter |3 pages

'Memories of Childhood'

chapter |3 pages

From Summer Images

chapter |2 pages

The Flood

chapter |2 pages

Mist in the Meadows

chapter |2 pages

England, 1830

chapter |2 pages

The Foddering Boy

chapter |1 pages

Winter Evening

chapter |2 pages

Sand Martin

chapter |1 pages

The Thrushes Nest

chapter |3 pages

The Pettichaps Nest

chapter |4 pages

'Snakes'

chapter |1 pages

Hedge Sparrow

chapter |3 pages

From the Flitting

chapter |4 pages

Remembrances

chapter |4 pages

The Fens

chapter |1 pages

The Ragwort

chapter |1 pages

The Mouse's Nest

chapter |1 pages

Sheep in Winter

chapter |1 pages

Wild Bees' Nest

chapter |1 pages

Stone Pit

chapter |1 pages

Wild Duck's Nest

chapter |1 pages

Woodpecker's Nest

chapter |1 pages

The Puddock's Nest

chapter |1 pages

The Groundlark

chapter |1 pages

The Marten

chapter |1 pages

The Fox

chapter |2 pages

The Badger

chapter |1 pages

The Hedgehog

chapter |1 pages

The Vixen

chapter |1 pages

The Water Lilies

chapter |1 pages

The Gipsy Camp

chapter |2 pages

'Byron's Funeral

chapter |10 pages

Don Juan a Poem

chapter |7 pages

Journey Out of Essex

chapter |6 pages

From Child Harold

chapter |2 pages

Mary

chapter |2 pages

Song

chapter |2 pages

Song Last Day

chapter |2 pages

I Am

chapter |1 pages

The Crow

chapter |1 pages

The Peasant Poet

chapter |1 pages

The Winters Come

chapter |1 pages

Fragment

chapter |1 pages

To John Clare

chapter |1 pages

Letter to James Hipkins

chapter |1 pages

Birds Nests