John Clare

(1793-1864)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Clare, John, 1793-1864 NRA: Clare, John (1793-1864) Poet DNB: Clare, John (1793-1864), poet, farm labourer, and naturalist LBT ID: JoClare1864 VIAF ID: 51703338 LOC ID: n79096802	B/BAP: 1793-07-13 DIED: 1864-05-20
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Rural poet and autodidact; he published Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) and was a writer for the London Magazine; his later years were spent in an asylum for the insane.
REFERENCES TO John Clare: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 21 Charles Lamb to Bryan Waller Procter, [Summer 1821] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to John Clare, 31 August 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 47 Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 27 Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 71 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1821 Letters: 1822 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2