[1793] - John Clare born Helpstone, Northamptonshire

John Clare (1793–1864) by William Hilton, 1816

Useful Links and Further Reading

• The John Clare Page, ‘Homepage’,
  http://www.johnclare.info/default.html
• The John Clare Society, ‘Homepage’,
  http://johnclaresociety.blogspot.com/
• Clare Cottage, ‘Homepage’,
  http://www.clarecottage.org/
• The John Clare Page, ‘Articles and Essays’,
  http://www.johnclare.info/articles.htm
• Mina Gorji, ‘John Clare and the Poetics of Mess’,
  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/graduate/issue/5/pdf/Mina_Gorji.pdf
• Bridget Keegan, ‘Lambs to the Slaughter: Leisure and Laboring-Class Poetry’, Romanticism on the Net, 27 (2002),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2002/v/n27/006562ar.html
• Internet Archive, ‘Works by John Clare’,
  http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22John%20Clare%22
  
  Richard Foulkes, ed., John Clare: A Bicentenary Celebration (Leicester, 1994)
• Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips and Geoffrey Summerfield, eds, John Clare in Context (Cambridge, 1994)
• John Goodridge and Simon Kovesi, eds, John Clare: New Approaches (John Clare Society, 2000)
• Jonathan Bate, John Clare (London, 2003)