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Homesteading
The Life of John Clare
Frederick Martin
377 pages~7 hr 30 min read38 chapters$4.99
John Clare was a farm laborer who became one of England's finest poets of the countryside, and then lost his mind. Frederick Martin tells his life from the fields of Helpston through the brief fame and the long shadow that followed. A moving biography of the peasant poet. The tragic story behind the immortal nature verse.
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38 chapters
- 1THE LIFE OF JOHN CLARE.
- 2HELPSTON.
- 3HELPSTON.
- 4JOHN CLARE LEARNS THRESHING, AND MAKES AN ATTEMPT TO BECOME A LAWYER'S CLERK.
- 5JOHN CLARE CONTINUES TO STUDY ALGEBRA, AND FALLS IN LOVE.
- 6TRAVELS IN SEARCH OF A BOOK.
- 7VARIOUS ADVENTURES, INCLUDING THE PURCHASE OF 'LOWE'S CRITICAL SPELLING-BOOK.'
- 8FRESH ATTEMPTS TO RISE IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING A SHORT MILITARY CAREER.
- 9TROUBLES OF LOVE, AND A TRIAL OF GYPSY LIFE.
- 10LIME BURNING AND LOVE MAKING.
- 11ATTEMPTS TO GET UP A PROSPECTUS.
- 12THE TURN OF FORTUNE.
- 13JOHN CLARE'S FIRST PATRON.
- 14PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.
- 15SUCCESS.
- 16'OPINIONS OF THE PRESS' AND CONSEQUENCES.
- 17NEW SIGHTS AND NEW FRIENDS.
- 18FIRST TROUBLES OF FAME.
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