Male : Labourer who became a poet. Married Martha Turner in 1820. Spent the last 27 years of his life in asylums and died in St Andrew's County Asylum, Northampton

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Helpston, Northamptonshire

Date of Birth : 1793 Date of Death : 1864 Age : 71

Other Work : Lime Burner

1820-1835
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820 Taylor & Hessey, London & E Drury, Stamford)
[E Drury, or Ned Drury, owned a shop in Stamford and John Taylor, the publisher, was his cousin]
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820 Taylor & Hessey) - 2nd & 3rd Eds
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1821 Taylor & Hessey) - 4th Ed
The Village Minstrel & Other Poems (1821 Taylor & Hessey) - 2 vols
The Village Minstrel & Other Poems (1823 Taylor & Hessey) - 2 vols. 2nd issue
The Shepherd's Calendar (1827 James Duncan)
The Rural Muse (1835 Whittaker)
Offered in 1999 for £450

Posthumously published Works
1873-1920
The Life & Remains of John Clare (by J L Cherry) (1873 Warne) - Birket Foster
Poems by John Clare (1901 G E Over) - selected by Norman Gale
Poems by John Clare(1908 Frowde) - selected by Arthur Symons
Northamptonshire Botanologia : John Clare (by G Claridge Druce 1912)
Poems (1920 Cobden Sanderson) - Edited by E Blunden & Alan Porter

1921-1960
Madrigals and Chronicles (1924 Beaumont Press) - Edited by E Blunden
Sketches in the Life of Clare, written by Himself (1931 CS) - Edited by E Blunden
The Poems (1935 Dent) - 2 vols. Edited by J W Tibble
Poems of John Clare's Madness (1949 Routledge) - Edited by Geoffrey Grigson
Poems (1950 Routledge) - Selected by Geoffrey Grigson
The Letters of John Clare (1951 Routledge) Edited by J W & A Tibble
The Prose of John Clare (1951 Routledge) Edited by J W & A Tibble
Selected Poems (1954 Heinemann) - Edited by James Reeves

1961-1980
The Later Poems (1964 Manchester UP) - edited by E Robinson & G Summerfield
The Shepherd's Calendar (1964 OUP) - David Gentleman
John Clare : Selection of His Poetry (1967 Chatto & W) - edited by E Robinson & G Summerfield
John Clare : selected Poems & Prose (1966 OUP) - edited by E Robinson & G Summerfield
The Wood is Sweet : Poems for Young Readers (sel by David Powell) (1966 Bodley Head)
John Clare : Selected Poems (1968 London) - Selected by E Feinstein
John Clare Letters (1970) - Edited by J W & Anne Tibble
Sonnets (1972 Oxford) - 112 signed by the designer Robert Chaundy
Birds Nest : Poems by John Clare (1973 Mid NAG) - Edited by J W & Anne Tibble
Clare (1973 Routledge) - Edited by Mark Storey
Poetry of John Clare : A critical Introduction by Mark Storey (1974 Macmillan)
John Clare : The Midsummer Cushion (1979 Mid NAG/Carcanet) - Edited by Tibble & R K R Thornton
John Clare : The Journals, Essays & Journey from Essex (1980 Carcanet) - Edited by Tibble

After 1981
John Clare : The Rural Muse (1982 Carcanet) - Edited by Thornton
The Later Poems of John Clare 1837-1864 (1984 OUP) - 2 vols. Edited by Robinson & Powell
The Natural History prose Writings of John Clare (1983 OUP) - Edited by M Grainger
The Letters of John Clare (1985 Clarendon Press) - Edited by M Story

READING
Frederick Martin : The Life of John Clare (1865 Macmillan)
J L Cherry : Life and Remains of John Clare (1873 Warne) - Birket Foster
J W Tibble & Anne Tibble : John Clare - A Life (1932 Cobden Sanderson) (1972)
J Murry Middleton : In His Clare & other Studies (1950)
June Wilson : Green Shadows - A Life of John Clare (1951 Hodder & Stoughton)
J W Tibble & Anne Tibble : John Clare - His Life & Poetry (1956 Heinemann 25/-)
Edward Storey : A Right to Song - The Life of John Clare (1982 Methuen)
G Deacon : John Clare and the Folk Tradition (1983 Sinclair)
Jonathan Bate : John Clare - A Biography (2003 Picador £25)