Poems

Read by Bruce Kachuk, Lynda Marie Neilson, Larry Wilson, Chris Pyle, Kathleen Moore, Tony Addison

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

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1 01 - Biography and Comment, part 1, by Norman Gale 21:40
2 02 - Biography and Comment, part 2, by Norman Gale 28:14
3 03 - Biography and Comment, part 3, by Norman Gale 18:34
4 04 - What is Life? 2:50
5 05 - Address to Plenty 15:50
6 06 - Noon 4:32
7 07 - The Universal Epitaph 0:52
8 08 - The Harvest Morning 5:46
9 09 - On an Infant's Grave 1:15
10 10 - To an April Daisy 2:09
11 11 - Summer Evening 9:41
12 12 - Patty 1:34
13 13 - Patty of the Vale 2:02
14 14 - My Love, Thou Art a Nosegay Sweet 1:05
15 15 - The Meeting 1:46
16 16 - Effusion 3:22
17 17 - Ballad 1:42
18 18 - Song 1:14
19 19 - The Gypsy's Camp 2:14
20 20 - To the Clouds 1:55
21 21 - The Woodman 11:24
22 22 - Rural Evening 10:42
23 23 - Rustic Fishing 6:00
24 24 - June 8:44
25 25 - December 7:20
26 26 - The Approach of Spring 7:02
27 27 - To the Rural Muse 12:11
28 28 - Summer Images 12:35
29 29 - Autumn 7:37
30 30 - The Vanities of Life 7:58
31 31 - Thoughts in a Church-Yard 2:50
32 32 - The Nightingale's Nest 6:55
33 33 - To P**** 2:04
34 34 - A World for Love 2:22
35 35 - Song 1:02
36 36 - Love 2:45
37 37 - Decay 4:47
38 38 - Pastoral Fancies 4:59
39 39 - The Autumn Robin 7:10
40 40 - A Spring Morning 1:28
41 41 - The Crab-tree 1:26
42 42 - Winter 1:28
43 43 - Old Poesy 1:22
44 44 - 'Tis Spring, my Love, 'tis Spring 1:45
45 45 - Graves of Infants 1:44
46 46 - Home Yearnings 1:52
47 47 - Love Lives beyond the Tomb 1:07
48 48 - My Early Home 1:20
49 49 - The Tell-tale Flowers 3:07
50 50 - To John Milton 4:24
51 51 - I am! Yet what I am 2:04