John Clare: “Man Out of Time”
Saturday October 18, 2003
from Slate:
Reviewing the new biography of John Clare, Christopher Caldwell notes that “peasant, lunatic, poet... John Clare was once as famous... as John Keats,” and asks “What happened?”
Clare was briefly famous as “the Green Man,” but spent his last years in the insane asylum, “unfit for society after years addicted to poetical prosings,” & is now known as “the forgotten Romantic.”
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Reviewing the new biography of John Clare, Christopher Caldwell notes that “peasant, lunatic, poet... John Clare was once as famous... as John Keats,” and asks “What happened?”
Clare was briefly famous as “the Green Man,” but spent his last years in the insane asylum, “unfit for society after years addicted to poetical prosings,” & is now known as “the forgotten Romantic.”
Related resources:
Our library of links to 19th century poets
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