The Old Year
Author(s): John Clare
Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)
Narrators: Ann Simmons, Claudia Salto, David Lawrence, Ernst Pattynama, Garth Burton, Jason Mills, Joe Weinmunson, Julia Niedermaier, Lee Ann Howlett, Michael Keen, Ravenotation, Stephen Perry, Scott Birney
Number of Chapters: 13
Length: 17 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 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 from Wikipedia)