Author:John Clare

John Clare
(1793–1864)

John Clare

Works

Poetry collections

• Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820)
• The Village Minstrel and Other Poems (1821)
• The Shepherd's Calendar with Village Stories and Other Poems (1827)
• The Rural Muse (1835)
• Life and Remains of John Clare ed. by J. L. Cherry (1873)
• Poems by John Clare ed. by Arthur Symons (1908)
• John Clare: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript ed. by Edmund Blunden and Alan Porter (1920)

Individual poems

• All Nature Has a Feeling (1845)
• Antiquity
• Autumn (Autumn comes laden with her ripened load)
• Autumn (I love the fitful gust that shakes) (1865)
• Autumn (Syren of sullen moods and fading hues)
• Autumn Birds
• Boston Church
• Clock-a-clay
• Decay (Amidst the happiest joy, a shade of grief)
• Decay (O Poesy is on the wane)
• The Dream
• The Dying Child (1865)
• Early Spring
• Earth's Eternity
• Evening (In the meadow's silk grasses we see the black snail)
• Evening ('Tis evening; the black snail has got on his track)
• The Evening Hours
• The Fairy Rings
• First Love
• The Flitting
• The Flood
• The Gipsy's Camp
• Graves of Infants
• Honesty
• I Am (1865)
• I love thee, sweet Mary
• Impromptu
• In Hilly-Wood
• Insects
• The Instinct of Hope
• Izaac Walton
• Little Trotty Wagtail
• Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
• May
• Memory
• The Mole-Catcher
• The Mores
• The Morning Wind
• My Love, thou art a Nosegay Sweet
• The Nightingale's Nest
• November (Sybil of months, and worshipper of winds)
• November (The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon)
• Pleasures of Fancy
• Popularity in Authorship (1824)
• The Primrose
• Providence
• Remembrances
• Secret Love
• Shepherd's Hut
• The Skylark (Above the russet clods the corn is seen)
• The Skylark (Although I'm in prison)
• Slander
• Song (Swamps of wild rush-beds and sloughs' squashy traces)
• Summer (1865)
• Summer Evening
• Summer Images (1835)
• Summer Morning
• Sun-set
• Thoughts in a Church-yard
• The Thrush's Nest
• To a Fallen Elm
• To Charles Lamb
• To Elia
• To John Clare (1865)
• To Mary
• To Napoleon
• To P****
• To the Memory of John Keats
• To Wordsworth
• What is Life?
• Where She Told Her Love
• The Winter's Spring
• The Wood-Cutter's Night Song
• A Woodland Seat
• The Yellowhammer

Letters

• Letter from John Clare to James Montgomery, January 5, 1825
• Letter from John Clare to James Montgomery, May 8, 1826

Works about Clare

• Life and Remains of John Clare by J. L. Cherry (1873)
• "Clare, John (1793-1864)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Clare, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Clare, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "John Clare", in The English Peasant (1893) by Richard Heath