LBT ID: MaClare1871 | B/BAP: 1800-04-06 DIED: 1871-02-05 |
SOURCES: Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of Portraits, Books, Manuscripts belonging to John Clare (1893) 27; DNB ["John Clare"] | |
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. | |