Poems
John Clare
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John Clare was a working-class English poet, best known for his poetic descriptions of the English Countryside. He is also one of the few popular poets of the 19th century, who, after being largely forgotten for years after their deaths, is being rediscovered in our time. This is a selection of John Clare's poems, suitable as an introduction into his work for those who do not know him. Readers who already did know Clare may like to (re-)discover poems that are not quite as well-known today. - Summary by Carolin (4 hr 37 min)
Chapters
| Biography and Comment, part 1, by Norman Gale | 21:40 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Biography and Comment, part 2, by Norman Gale | 28:14 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Biography and Comment, part 3, by Norman Gale | 18:34 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| What is Life? | 2:50 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Address to Plenty | 15:50 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Noon | 4:32 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| The Universal Epitaph | 0:52 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| The Harvest Morning | 5:46 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| On an Infant's Grave | 1:15 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| To an April Daisy | 2:09 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Summer Evening | 9:41 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Patty | 1:34 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Patty of the Vale | 2:02 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| My Love, Thou Art a Nosegay Sweet | 1:05 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| The Meeting | 1:46 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Effusion | 3:22 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Ballad | 1:42 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Song | 1:14 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| The Gypsy's Camp | 2:14 | Read by Chris Pyle |
| To the Clouds | 1:55 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| The Woodman | 11:24 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Rural Evening | 10:42 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Rustic Fishing | 6:00 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| June | 8:44 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| December | 7:20 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| The Approach of Spring | 7:02 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| To the Rural Muse | 12:11 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Summer Images | 12:35 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Autumn | 7:37 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| The Vanities of Life | 7:58 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Thoughts in a Church-Yard | 2:50 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| The Nightingale's Nest | 6:55 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| To P**** | 2:04 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| A World for Love | 2:22 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Song | 1:02 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Love | 2:45 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Decay | 4:47 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Pastoral Fancies | 4:59 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| The Autumn Robin | 7:10 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| A Spring Morning | 1:28 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| The Crab-tree | 1:26 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Winter | 1:28 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Old Poesy | 1:22 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| 'Tis Spring, my Love, 'tis Spring | 1:45 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Graves of Infants | 1:44 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
| Home Yearnings | 1:52 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Love Lives beyond the Tomb | 1:07 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| My Early Home | 1:20 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| The Tell-tale Flowers | 3:07 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| To John Milton | 4:24 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| I am! Yet what I am | 2:04 | Read by Tony Addison |