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"I Am" : The Selected Poetry of John Clare
I Am The Selected Poetry of John Clare Author:John Clare Hail, humble Helpstone ... — Where dawning genius never met the day, — Where useless ignorance slumbers life away — Unknown nor heeded, where low genius tries — Above the vulgar and the vain to rise. — --from "Helpstone" — "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of the great "peasant... more » poet"'s remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers for two centuries: the tender chronicler of nature and childhood; the champion of folkways in the face of oppression; the passionate, sweet-tongued love-poet; and the lonely visionary confined, in old age and senility, to asylums.« less