John Clare

Silence is rare in Nature.When we really listen, Nature is conducting symphonies of sound as her world goes about the day and night. Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere, for everyone.Our eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways, the soft...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Autumn by John Clare . This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 17th, 2010. Author - John Clare. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar historically brings April showers, sunshine, touches of warmth and bursts of colour from tree and land. Buds, blossom, leaves, the great symphony of nature cascades across the landscape. Wildlife has new...

Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature. The structure of the landscape, the multi-coloured mantle of trees and fauna, the myriad animals that wander and inhabit this glorious Earth. Nature conducts symphonies of...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2012John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the...

Librivox volunteers bring you 7 readings of Schoolboys in Winter, by John Clare. This was the weekly poem for the week of January 4, 2015. - Summary by Rachel Author - John Clare. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January...

John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his ‘Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery’ was published in 1820. His language...

John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his 'Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery' was published in 1820. His language...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Summer Evening by John Clare. This was the weekly poetry project for July 26th, 2009. Author - John Clare. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Summer Morning by John Clare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 9th, 2009. Author - John Clare. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

John Clare was the forgotten Romantic poet, until the late twentieth century. Known by his contemporaries as the ‘Peasant Poet’ he recorded in his poems the natural landscape of rural England before the Industrial Revolution. His poems rival...

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest...

John Clare was born on 13th July, 1793 in Helpston, a few miles north of Peterborough.Schooled only until the age of 12 his early career was that of agricultural labourer, pot boy, gardener and lime burner. His early life of hardship and frequent...

Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history; the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime ministers. However it is also a church that remembers the men and women of the arts. Dedicated writers and poets who spoke so...