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Honoring John Clare; The "peasant poet" was more than a prodigy.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20031207
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Byline: Amanda Kolson Hurley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

When John Clare (1793-1864) visited London in the spring of 1820, he was a cause celebre. His first volume of poems had just been published to great acclaim, and Clare - an agricultural laborer who had never before set foot outside of the county of Northamptonshire, let alone in the capital - dined with aristocrats and even had his portrait painted. When he departed at the end of the week, he was more famous than his fellow poet John Keats.

Clare then returned home to the rural village of Helpston. Home was a four-room ...

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