John Clare: Selected Poetry and ProseThis book presents Clare's poetry exactly as he wrote it, and includes selections from his `mad' poems as well as his earlier descriptions of birds, animals and village life. |
Contents
Don Juan A poem | 22 |
Helpstone | 25 |
Noon | 33 |
from Summer evening | 44 |
Grammar | 51 |
Childish recollections | 62 |
from The village minstrel | 68 |
Helpston Green | 71 |
Memories of childhood | 128 |
England 1830 | 136 |
The fens | 150 |
Journey out of Essex | 157 |
The hedgehog | 163 |
Mary | 190 |
Further reading | 223 |
62 | 227 |
To a fallen elm | 84 |
from The progress of ryhme | 99 |
The woodman sonnet | 112 |
66 | 238 |
Glossary | 243 |
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