John Clare was the forgotten Romantic poet, until the late twentieth century. Known by his contemporaries as the ‘Peasant Poet’ he recorded in his poems the natural landscape of rural England before the Industrial Revolution. His poems rival Wordsworth’s for their sensitivity to nature and pantheism: ‘I feel a beautiful providence ever about me,’ Clare wrote. But his life was a long struggle against poverty and mental collapse. Some of his finest poems were written in the local asylum.

The Great Poets – John Clare

The Tyger… I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud… Ode to the West Wind… The Rime of the Ancient Mariner… Ode to a Nightingale… We’ll go no more a-roving… The Peasant Poet ‘All good poetry,’ wrote Wordsworth, ‘is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ and this was to be one of the hallmarks of the Romantic poets. With a dynamic spirit, these great English poets made a conscious return to nostalgia and spiritual depth. Each chose a different path, but they are united in a love of moods, impressions, scenes, stories, sights and sounds. In this collection of more than forty poems are some of the finest and most memorable works in the English language.

Great Poets of the Romantic Age

A Spring Morning A World for Love Address to Plenty Approach of Spring, The Autumn Autumn Robin, The Ballad Crab Tree, The Decay December Effusion Gipsy Camp, The Graves of Infants Harvest Morning, The Home Yearnings I am! Yet what I am June Love Love Lives beyond the Tomb Meeting, The Milton, To John My Early Home My Love, thou art a Nosegay Sweet Nightingale's Nest, The Noon Pastoral Fancies Patty Patty of the Vale Old Poesy On an Infant's Grave Rural Evening Rustic Fishing Song Song Summer Evening Summer Images Tell-Tale Flowers, The Thoughts in a Churchyard 'Tis Spring, my Love, 'Tis Spring To an April Daisy To P * * * * To the Clouds To the Rural Muse Universal Epitaph, The Vanities of Life, The What is Life? Winter Woodman, The

Poems

1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson - My River 9. P.B. Shelley - Love's Philosophy 10. Alfred Tennyson - Maud 11. E.A. Poe - Annabel Lee 12. J.Keats - Bright Star 13. Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress 14. E.A. Poe - To Helen 15. R.Tagore - Unending Love 16. Elizabeth B. Browning - How Do I Love Thee? 17. Ella W. Wilcox - I Love You 18. E.Dickinson - Wild Nights 19. Sara Teasdale - I Am Not Yours 20. E.A.Poe - A Valentine 21. George Etherege - Sylvia 22. W.Shakespeare - My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun 23. Michael Drayton - Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part 24. Samuel T. Coleridge - Love 25. R.Burns - A Red, Red Rose 26. T.Wyatt - Whoso List To Hunt 27. Patience Worth - Who Said That Love Was Fire? 28. W.Shakespeare - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? 29. E.Dickinson - That I Did Always Love 30. C.Brennan - Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her 31. O.Wilde - We Are Made One with What We Touch and See 32. C.Marlowe - Who Ever Loved That Loved Not At First Sight? 33. E.Dickinson - Come Slowly, Eden 34. W.Shakespeare - My Love Is As A Fever, Longing Still 35. Unknown - The Maiden's Song 36. P.B. Shelley - Indian Serenade 37. E.A. Poe - A Dream Within A Dream 38. W.Morris - Love Is Enough 39. John Clare - First Love 40. P.B. Shelley - Music When Soft Voices Die (To --) 41. Thomas Moore - Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms 42. R.L. Stevenson - Love What Is Love 43. Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear And Loving Husband 44. John B. O'Reilly - A White Rose 45. Ralph W. Emerson - Give All To Love 46. Leigh Hunt - Jenny Kiss'd Me 47. Dante G. Rossetti - A Little While 48. W.Scott - Lochinvar 49. John Wilmot - Love And Life 50. Robert Herrick - Sweet Disorder

50 Classic Love Poems You Have To Read (Golden Deer Classics)

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson - My River 9. P.B. Shelley - Love's Philosophy 10. Alfred Tennyson - Maud 11. E.A. Poe - Annabel Lee 12. J.Keats - Bright Star 13. Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress 14. E.A. Poe - To Helen 15. R.Tagore - Unending Love 16. Elizabeth B. Browning - How Do I Love Thee? 17. Ella W. Wilcox - I Love You 18. E.Dickinson - Wild Nights 19. Sara Teasdale - I Am Not Yours 20. E.A.Poe - A Valentine 21. George Etherege - Sylvia 22. W.Shakespeare - My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun 23. Michael Drayton - Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part 24. Samuel T. Coleridge - Love 25. R.Burns - A Red, Red Rose 26. T.Wyatt - Whoso List To Hunt 27. Patience Worth - Who Said That Love Was Fire? 28. W.Shakespeare - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? 29. E.Dickinson - That I Did Always Love 30. C.Brennan - Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her 31. O.Wilde - We Are Made One with What We Touch and See 32. C.Marlowe - Who Ever Loved That Loved Not At First Sight? 33. E.Dickinson - Come Slowly, Eden 34. W.Shakespeare - My Love Is As A Fever, Longing Still 35. Unknown - The Maiden's Song 36. P.B. Shelley - Indian Serenade 37. E.A. Poe - A Dream Within A Dream 38. W.Morris - Love Is Enough 39. John Clare - First Love 40. P.B. Shelley - Music When Soft Voices Die (To --) 41. Thomas Moore - Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms 42. R.L. Stevenson - Love What Is Love 43. Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear And Loving Husband 44. John B. O'Reilly - A White Rose 45. Ralph W. Emerson - Give All To Love 46. Leigh Hunt - Jenny Kiss'd Me 47. Dante G. Rossetti - A Little While 48. W.Scott - Lochinvar 49. John Wilmot - Love And Life 50. Robert Herrick - Sweet Disorder LIST OF LOVE LETTERS Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas Emma Darwin to Charles Darwin Vita Sackville-West & Virginia Woolf - Love Letters Honoré de Balzac to Countess Ewelina Haska Napoleon Bonaparte to Joséphine de Beauharnais John Keats to Fanny Brawne Lord Byron to Teresa Guiccioli Voltaire to Olympe Dunover Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn Leo Tolstoy to Valeria Arsenev Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet Nathaniel Hawthorne to Sophia Hawthorne Jack London to Anna Strunsky Johann von Goethe to Charlotte von Stein James Joyce to Nora Barnacle Abigail Adams to John Adams Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou Harriet B. Stowe to Her Husband, Calvin Pietro Bembo to Lucrezie Borgia Charlotte Brontë to Constantin Heger Lewis Carroll to Gertrude Chataway Catherine Of Aragon to Henri VIII Mark Twain to Olivia Langdon John Constable to Maria Oliver Cromwell to Elizabeth Cromwell Ninon De L'Enclos to One Of Her Lovers Alfred de Musset to Amantine Aurore Dudevant Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin Heloise - Letter to Peter Abelard Count Gabriel Honore de Mirbeau to Sophie Lyman Hodge to Mary Granger, His Fiancee King Henry IV Of France to Gabrielle d'Estrées Franz Liszt to the Countess d'Agoult Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his wife Constanze Thomas Otway to Mrs Barry Ovid to his wife Robert Schumann to Clara Wieck Vincent Van Gogh to Theo, his brother Tsarina Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II Of Russia Laura Lyttleton - Letter to Alfred, Her Husband

Perfect Love, Emotional Romance: A Heartwarming Collection of 100 Classic Poems and Letters for the Lovers (Valentine's Day 2019 Edition)

In "Poems," John Clare presents a captivating collection that deeply embodies the Romantic sensibility while drawing inspiration from the pastoral traditions of English poetry. His verses celebrate the rural landscapes and the intricacies of nature, characterized by vivid imagery and emotive language that invite readers into the serene yet tumultuous world he inhabited. Clare'Äôs keen observations of flora and fauna, coupled with a profound sense of nostalgia for the simpler life of the countryside, establish his work as a crucial link in the development of environmental consciousness in literature and a poignant prelude to the nature poetry that would flourish in subsequent decades. John Clare, often called the 'Peasant Poet,' was born into a poor agricultural family in Northamptonshire, England, in 1793. His life experiences, marked by the struggles of rural existence, poverty, and mental health challenges, deeply influenced his writing. Clare's close connections to the English landscape and its ecosystems echo throughout his poetry, reflecting his dissatisfaction with the urbanization of his time and his unyielding love for nature'Äôs beauty. For readers seeking an authentic portrayal of rural life and a profound connection with nature, Clare's "Poems" stands as an essential text. It not only showcases a unique voice in English literature but also serves as a poignant reminder of the beauty and fragility of the natural world, making it a timeless read for those interested in the enduring relevance of environmental themes.

In his collection, "Poems," John Clare masterfully intertwines the rich tapestry of rural life with profound reflection on nature and human existence. Written during the tumultuous early 19th century, his poems evoke the romantic spirit while employing a distinctive, lyrical style characterized by vivid imagery and an authentic voice that resonates with the challenges of his time. Clare's work also captures the socio-economic changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, often lamenting the loss of the pastoral landscapes and simple, peasant life he cherished, thus situating his poetry within a larger environmental and cultural critique. John Clare (1793-1864), often hailed as the 'peasant poet,' forged his path through a world marked by hardship and isolation. Born into a farming family, Clare's intimate knowledge of the English countryside imbued his poetry with an authenticity that connected deeply with nature. His personal struggles with poverty and mental health shaped his outlook, resulting in verses that reflect both a celebration of the natural world and a poignant awareness of its fragility and decline. "Poems" is an essential read for lovers of nature poetry and those interested in the intersection of art and environmental consciousness. Clare's work not only captivates with its beauty but also invites readers to engage critically with the landscapes we inhabit. This collection stands as a testament to a voice that must be heard, illuminating the profound bond between humanity and the natural world.

In "Life and Remains of John Clare, The 'Northamptonshire Peasant Poet,'" readers are presented with a compelling blend of autobiography and critical reflection, showcasing the life of one of England's most significant Romantic poets. Clare's narrative is marked by its vivid imagery and deep connection to the rural landscapes of Northamptonshire, revealing his profound appreciation for nature amidst the struggles of peasant life. The book combines his personal experiences with a nuanced understanding of the social and political contexts of the time, illustrating Clare's challenges as a working-class artist in a rapidly industrializing society. John Clare (1793-1864) emerged from a humble agricultural background, which shaped his unique perspective on nature and humanity. His intense love for the countryside and acute observations of rural life informed his poetry, while his own battles with mental health and societal challenges added layers of complexity to his work. Clare's correspondence with other literary figures of the time highlights his aspiration for recognition and understanding beyond his marginalized existence as a peasant. This book is an essential read for those interested in English literature and the Romantic movement. Clare'Äôs unique voice and his poignant reflections on nature and the human condition resonate powerfully today, making this collection a vital resource for scholars, students, and anyone seeking to understand the intersection of art, identity, and environment.

Life and Remains of John Clare, The "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"

John Clare was a defining voice of the rural poetic tradition. His story was first set down more than two centuries ago and has captured the imagination of the reading public ever since. It is told most vividly and poignantly in Clare's own words. This volume brings together, in definitive form, all Clare's important autobiographical writing. His Journal is set alongside his Sketches and 'Autobiographical Fragments' as well as his famous 'Journey out of Essex'. Maps of Clare's countryside are also included, as are his will and extracts from his asylum letters. Clare appears here as ploughboy, gardener's boy and militiaman; as lover and husband, acquaintance of Hazlitt, Lamb and Coleridge and finally, as inmate in an asylum: his manifold personas emerge with great freshness from this remarkable book.

John Clare By Himself

John Clare (1793-1864), ein bedeutender Dichter der englischen Romantik, geriet in seinen späten Jahren in eine tiefe Lebenskrise, bis er schließlich 1837 in eine private Nervenheilanstalt in High Beach, Essex, eingewiesen wurde. Vier Jahre später versuchte er, der Anstalt zu entkommen. Die "Reise aus Essex" ist die Geschichte dieser Flucht. Clare wanderte in einem brutalen Viertagemarsch über fast 100 Meilen zurück in sein Heimatdorf. Seine Erinnerungen an die Reise sind poetisch, mitreißend und bewegend. Das Hörspiel vereint dramatische Szenen und Gedichte mit Volksmusik, die Clare selbst sammelte und spielte. Seine Werke erscheinen hier erstmals in deutscher Sprache.

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