Nightwind
By John Clare · Running time 00:20:56 · Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
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About this book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Nightwind by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 4, 2023. ------ Clare had bought a copy of James Thomson's The Seasons and began to write poems and sonnets. In an attempt to hold off his parents' eviction from their home, Clare offered his poems to a local bookseller, Edward Drury, who sent them to his cousin, John Taylor of the Taylor & Hessey firm, which had published the work of John Keats. Taylor published Clare's Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery in 1820. The book was highly praised and the next year his Village
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