To The Rural Muse and Other Poems

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 13, 2025

In Category - Lyric

Authors: John Clare In Year : 1835

Book Language: English

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To the Rural Muse
On May Morning
Thoughts in a Churchyard
Sonnet - To Napoleon
On an Infant Killed by Lightning
The Shepherd's Song
The Evening Star
Insects
The Skylark
Genius
The Milking Hour
The Pasture
SONNETS: Rural Scenes
Lord Byron
Crowland Abbey
November
The Milking Shed
To Charles Lamb
Boston Church
Izaac Walton
The Hail-storm in June 1831
The Flood
Shepherd's Hut
A Woodland Seat
On Leaving the Cottage of my Birth

The English poet John Clare was the son of a farm labourer and was often referred to as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet". His work is mostly inspired by the English countryside and the rural way of life. In "To the Rural Muse" he explains how he regarded some aspects of the rural life as a kind of Poetic Muse. Clare originally wrote in Northamptonshire dialect with little or no punctuation. Modern editions of his work often revise these aspects. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)