John Clare (1793-1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic
observers of the natural world. Born into a rural labouring family,
he felt connected to two communities: his native village and the
Romantic and earlier poets who inspired him. The first part of this
study of Clare and community shows how Clare absorbed and responded
to his reading of a selection of poets including Chatterton,
Bloomfield, Gray and Keats, revealing just how serious the process
of self-education was to his development. The second part shows how
he combined this reading with the oral folk-culture he was steeped
in, to create an unrivalled poetic record of a rural culture during
the period of enclosure, and the painful transition to the modern
world. In his lifelong engagement with rural and literary life,
Clare understood the limitations as well as the strengths in
communities, the pleasures as well as the horrors of isolation.
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