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Clare’s ringing voice – quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous – emerges in generous quotation from his letters, journals and autobiographical writings.
John clare biography jonathan bate ted talk
His biographer Jonathan Bate, has written that Clare is the greatest labouring-class poet that England ever produced.
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His biography of John Clare (a poet who was a key influence on Ted Hughes) was short-listed for seven literary prizes and won three of them, including Britain’s two oldest literary awards, the .
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Clare’s ringing voice – quick-witted, passionate, vulnerable, courageous – emerges through extracts from his letters, journals, autobiographical writings and poems, as Jonathan Bate .