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John Clare was a working-class English poet, best known for his poetic descriptions of the English Countryside. He is also one of the few popular poets of the 19th century, who, after being largely forgotten for years after their deaths, is being rediscovered in our time. This is a selection of John Clare's poems, suitable as an introduction into his work for those who do not know him. Readers who already did know Clare may like to (re-)discover poems that are not quite as well-known today. - Summary by Carolin (4 hr 37 min)

Chapters

Biography and Comment, part 1, by Norman Gale

Biography and Comment, part 2, by Norman Gale

Biography and Comment, part 3, by Norman Gale

What is Life?

Address to Plenty

Noon

The Universal Epitaph

The Harvest Morning

On an Infant's Grave

To an April Daisy

Summer Evening

Patty

Patty of the Vale

My Love, Thou Art a Nosegay Sweet

The Meeting

Effusion

Ballad

Song

The Gypsy's Camp

To the Clouds

The Woodman

Rural Evening

Rustic Fishing

June

December

The Approach of Spring

To the Rural Muse

Summer Images

Autumn

The Vanities of Life

Thoughts in a Church-Yard

The Nightingale's Nest

To P****

A World for Love

Song

Love

Decay

Pastoral Fancies

The Autumn Robin

A Spring Morning

The Crab-tree

Winter

Old Poesy

'Tis Spring, my Love, 'tis Spring

Graves of Infants

Home Yearnings

Love Lives beyond the Tomb

My Early Home

The Tell-tale Flowers

To John Milton

I am! Yet what I am