Today’s Poem: All Nature Has a Feeling

John Clare’s hymn to Wordsworth

John Constable, View of Dedham Vale from East Bergholt, 1815 (Wikimedia Commons)

The life of the English poet John Clare (1793–1864) overlapped significantly with the careers of both Wordsworth and Tennyson, and with both Romanticism and Victorianism — to neither of which did Clare precisely belong, not least because he was a working man. The son of a No…