"A Champion for the Poor" brings together for the first time John Clare's longest poem, "The Parish" – in a new and corrected text – and his forceful satires "The Hue & Cry" and "The Summons". Some previously unpublished poems are included, too. Ther...

John Clare (1793-1864): Born the son of a thresher at Helpston, Northamptonshire, John Clare is a rural poet and story teller. He is a poet of spiritual originality, as compelling at his best as Crabbe and Wordsworth as a story teller in verse. He wa...