page_title: John Clare
section_title: Works about Clare
hierarchical_section_title: John Clare / Works about Clare
caption_attribution_description: This photograph, the only one of Clare, was taken in 1862, when he was nearly seventy years of age, by W.W. Law of Northampton, the town where Clare lived in the asylum. Photograph, albumen print, half-length, seated, oval.
context_page_description: John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption. His poetry underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th century: he is now often seen as a major 19th-century poet. 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, and of the alienated and unstable self."
context_section_description: In chronological order:
  Frederick Martin, The Life of John Clare, 1865
  J. L. Cherry, Life and Remains of John Clare, 1873
  Heath, Richard (1893). "John Clare" . The English Peasant. London: T. Fisher Unwin. pp. 292–319.
  Norman Gale, Clare's Poems, 1901
  June Wilson, Green Shadows: The Life of John Clare, 1951
  Edward Bond, The Fool, 1975
  Greg Crossan, A Relish for Eternity: The Process of Divinization in the Poetry of John Clare, 1976, ISBN 978-0773406162
  H. O. Dendurent, John Clare: A Reference Guide, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978
  Edward Storey, A Right to Song: The Life of John Clare, London: Methuen, 1982
  Timothy Brownlow, John Clare and Picturesque Landscape, 1983
  John MacKenna, Clare: a novel, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1993, ISBN 0-85640-467-5 (fictional biography)
  Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips and Geoffrey Summerfield, John Clare in Context, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-44547-7
  Simon Kövesi, John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History, London: Palgrave, 2017, ISBN 978-0-230-27787-8
  Alan Moore, Voice of the Fire (Chapter 10 only), UK: Victor Gollancz
  John Goodridge and Simon Kovesi (eds), John Clare: New Approaches, John Clare Society, 2000
  Jonathan Bate, John Clare, London: Picador, 2003
  Alan B. Vardy, John Clare, Politics and Poetry, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003
  Iain Sinclair, Edge of The Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's "Journey Out of Essex", Hamish Hamilton, 2005
  John MacKay, Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-253-34749-1.
  David Powell, First Publications of John Clare's Poems, John Clare Society of North America, 2009
  Carry Akroyd, "Natures Powers & Spells": Landscape Change, John Clare and Me, Langford Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-904078-35-7
  Judith Allnatt, The Poet's Wife, Doubleday, 2010 (fiction), ISBN 0-385-61332-6
  Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze, Jonathan Cape, 2009
  D. C. Moore, Town (Play)
  Sarah Houghton-Walker, John Clare's Religion, Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-0-754665-14-4
  Adam White, John Clare's Romanticism, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
caption: The only known photograph of Clare, 1862
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