John Clare Quotes
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
Citations
Clare, John. The Letters of John Clare. Edited by Mark Storey, Clarendon Press, 1985.
Related Quotes
John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption. His poetry underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th century: he is now often seen as a major 19th-century poet. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self."
