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| | John Clare Society homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The John Clare Society was founded in 1981 to promote a wider and deeper knowledge of this remarkable poet. |
 | | John Clare's life spanned one of the great ages of English poetry but, until about fifty years ago, few would have thought of putting his name with those of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning and Tennyson. |
 | | His formal education, such as it was, ended when he was eleven years old, but this child of the 'unwearying eye' had a thirst for knowledge and became a model example of the self-taught man. As a poet of rural England he has few rivals. |
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