The Flood

Author(s): John Clare

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

Narrators: Amy Gramour, Bruce Kachuk, Benjamin Lewis, Brian Darby, David Lawrence, Esther Ben Simonides, Newgatenovelist, Ian King, Lee Ann Howlett, Leonard Wilson, Maria Kasper, Matthew Datcher, SkyAlbatross

Number of Chapters: 13

Length: 16 minutes

Language: English

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 now often 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