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. | |