ABSTRACT
John Watson Dalby (1799–1883?) was a prolific sonneteer. His Tales, Songs and Sonnets, 1866, included this poem, entitled ‘John Clare’, which first appeared in Northampton Mercury, 4 June 1864, cxliii, 3. G.J. de Wilde was the author of Rambles Round About, ed. E.Dicey, Northampton 1872, in which Clare was mentioned. For Thomas Inskip, see No. 66.
