Edited from more than two thousand of Clare’s poems, two-thirds of them unpublished at the time, this 1920 selection prints ninety for the first time. Arranged as early poems, the middle period from 1824 to 1836 and the asylum poems, it is full of village life, birds, weather and geese chattering like gossips over tea.
The edition that began Clare’s modern rediscovery, for anyone who loves English rural poetry. Download the free EPUB.