Презентация "Биография Джона Клера"

John Clare's birthplace Helpston

School in  Glinton  church

Clare became a  potboy  in the  Blue Bell   public house

Clare - a gardener at  Burghley House

Clare worked in Pickworth, Rutland as a lime burner

Taylor published Clare's  Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery  in 1820

The cottage was subdivided with his family renting a part.

He had married Martha ("Patty") Turner in Great Gasterton church .

Earl Fitzwilliam 

presented Clare with a new cottage and a piece of ground, but Clare could not settle in his new home.

His last work, the  Rural Muse  (1835), was noticed favorably by  Christopher North

Dr Matthew Allen's private asylum High Beach near Loughton, in Epping Forest

"full of many strange delusions"

to be a prize fighter

he was  Lord Byron

Between Christmas and New Year 1841, Clare was committed to the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum (now St. Andrew’s Hospital).  

John Clare Memorial, Helpston, Peterborough

  Poet born in the village 1793, died 1864 in Northampton Lunatic Asylum but buried in the nearby churchyard.

The only one photo of Clare

This photograph,, was taken in 1862, when he was nearly seventy years of age, by W.W. Law of Northampton, the town where Clare lived in the asylum.

Northamptonshire dialect

"lady-cow“ ladybird)

"throstle" (song thrush)

Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

In 2003 the scholar 

Jonathan Bate published the first major critical biography of the poet