Letter In Verse
- Length
- 20 min
- Chapters
- 13
- Language
- English
- First published
- 1920
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Letter In Verse by John Clare.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 10, 2025. ------
John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self." - Summary by Wikipedia
Chapters
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