John Clare

John Clare ( born July 13, 1793 in Helpston, Northamptonshire, † May 19, 1864 ) was an English naturalist and poet known as one of the best descriptor of the countryside.

John Clare was born on July 13, 1793 in Help Stone as the son of a day laborer. He became happy and quickly in spite of very limited education resources. James Thomson's Seasons aroused his poetic talent and enthusiastic 13- year-olds to the song The morning walk and its counterpart The evening walk. John Turnill in Help Stone took care of him and taught him in writing and mathematics. His living acquired by Clare handicrafts and violin, God and nature he sang alone for your own pleasure. In 1818 came his sonnet on the setting sun in the hands of the bookseller Drury to Hamford, and this prompted the output of a collection of Clare's Poems descriptive of rural life and scenery, overall participation excited. Another equally successful collection of his poems was published under the title The village minstrel, and other poems. This comes into possession of a small fortune, Clare was in Help Lower Stone domesticated, but fell by unhappy land speculation in misery. He died on 19 May 1864 in a psychiatric hospital.

Works

• Poems descriptive of rural life and scenery, 3rd edition, London 1820
• The village minstrel, and other poems, London 1821, 2 vols