John Clare is the quintessential Romantic poet. As an agricultural laborer, he lived in the closest communion with nature possible for civilized man. At the same time he acquired as little formal education as one could have and survive as a literary...

A discussion of John Clare 's prose writings must be as much an account of the reception and publishing history of his work as it is a biographical sketch of the man himself. His life was a struggle from a disadvantaged peasant background to achieve...

This volume, we are told, 'extends, corrects and thus replaces The Autobiographical Writings of John Clare (1983) edited by Eric Robinson.' What this volume misses is a chronology of Clare's life. But there are delightful woodgravings by John Lawrence. Clare's spelling and idiosyncratic...

Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and London: Picador, 2003), xix + 648. $40.00/[pounds sterling]25 Jonathan Bate, ed., "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), xxiii...

In the following essay, Chilcott presents a close study of the structure of The Shepherd's Calendar.

In the following essay, Wallace compares Clare and William Wordsworth with regard to their individual renderings of rural/pastoral subjects in their poetry.

In the following essay, McKusick explores Clare's ecological consciousness. singling the poet out for his sensitivity toward nature and his vehement support for environmental preservation, and calling his oeuvre “a powerful and suggestive model for contemporary ecological writing.”