November

Author(s): John Clare

Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: April Gonzales, Algy Pug, Albatross, Cynthia Moyer, Chiquito Crasto, Chessie Joy, CaprishaPage, David Lawrence, David Barnes, DonWon, Erin McKelle, EmHerald, Garth Burton, Snapdragon, Jason Mills, Jannie Meisberger, Leonard Wilson, Patrick Wallace, Ravenotation, Winston Tharp

Number of Chapters: 20

Length: 23 minutes

Language: English

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2012

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self". (Summary by Wikipedia)