Letter In Verse
Author: first_name: John
last_name: Clare
Language: English
Year: 1920

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Letter In Verse by John Clare.<br>
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 10, 2025.  <br> ------<br>
John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, an