false 274696 1 <div><i>Hail, humble Helpstone ... </i><br><i>Where dawning genius never met the day, </i><br><i>Where useless ignorance slumbers life away</i><br><i>Unknown nor heeded, where low genius tries</i><br><i>Above the vulgar and the vain to rise.</i><br>--from "Helpstone"<br><br><i>"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare</i> is the first anthology of the great "peasant poet"'s remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers for two centuries: the tender chronicler of nature and childhood; the champion of folkways in the face of oppression; the passionate, sweet-tongued love-poet; and the lonely visionary confined, in old age and senility, to asylums.<br></div> 266364 15 11 2003 "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare total:43|5:28|4:8|3:6|2:1| 43 192 60 9 5 0 false false Sun Dec 21 13:43:31 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 13:49:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 15:15:12 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 18:22:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 15 00:34:51 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 22:52:19 -0700 2007
Somehow reading so many of these nature poems in a row, is really relaxing and lush and I feel them around me. But after reading so many of these nature poems, after a while, it stops being about "about" since every poem seems to be saying the same th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 10:14:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 17:15:54 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 10:14:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Aug 20 08:15:09 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 21 08:59:51 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Sep 08 13:46:41 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 24 15:19:26 -0700 2008 You can see the PDF of the piece here: http://www.wordwelder.com/John_Clare_2Po...

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