Today’s Poem: All Nature Has a Feeling

John Clare’s hymn to Wordsworth

May 21, 2024

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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…

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