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John Clare [1793-1864] English
Rank: 111
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Peasant, Romanticism, Sonnet


John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption.

Life, Poetry



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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. Life
101
He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. Poetry
102
The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
103
I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
104
I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
105
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
106
I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.
107
And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
108
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
109
I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.
110

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