Peter Washington

A Child Of Nature

John Clare

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WHAT IS YOUR image of the poet at work? Do you think of a solitary figure, striding over windy hills by day or seated at a quiet desk by night? Do you see the finished poem as the product of this lonely being – the pure expression of a single imagination?

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