Norman Gale’s selection opens with a biographical essay tracing Clare from his grandfather’s arrival in Helpston to his years as a farm labourer and his celebrity as a rural poet. The poems follow: ‘What Is Life?’, harvest mornings and summer evenings, verses to an April daisy and an infant’s grave, and the love songs to Patty of the Vale.
A compact introduction to the finest English poet of rural labour and the countryside he saw vanishing. Download the free EPUB.