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Life and Remains of John Clare

Life and Remains of John Clare

Cherry, J. L.

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ISBN10: 1975775422
ISBN13: 9781975775421
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 27 2017
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Among the papers which John Clare, the Peasant Poet of our county, left behind him, was one in which he desired that the Editor of his Remains should dedicate them to Earl Spencer, with the Author's last wishes. That memorandum was written in the year 1825, when the poet was anticipating, to use his own words, a speedy entrance into the dark porch of eternity, whence none returns to tell the tale of his reception. These melancholy forebodings were not realized, for although in a few years Clare became dead to the world, he lived on in seclusion to a patriarchal age. Meanwhile the Earl Spencer to whom he desired that his Remains should be dedicated passed away, and the title descended first to your lordship's uncle, then to your lordship's father, and lastly to your lordship. But through all these years the Earls Spencer were the steadfast and generous friends of the unhappy Poet, nor did your lordship's bounty cease with his life, but was continued to his widow. In dedicating this volume to your lordship, as I now do, I am complying with the spirit and almost with the very letter of poor Clare's injunction.

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