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A Chronology | |
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A Note on This Selection | |
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Early Poems | |
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To the Fox Fern | |
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Schoolboys in Winter | |
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To an Infant Sister in Heaven | |
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A Moment's Rapture While Bearing the Lovely Weight of A. S--r--s | |
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A Ramble | |
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Dedication to Mary | |
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from Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) | |
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from Helpstone | |
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What is Life? | |
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Dawnings of Genius | |
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Patty | |
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The Primrose | |
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The Gypsies' Evening Blaze | |
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The River Gwash | |
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The Meeting | |
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from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems (1821) | |
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from The Village Minstrel | |
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Song ("Swamps of wild rush-beds and sloughs' squashy traces") | |
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To an Infant Daughter | |
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Langley Bush | |
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The Last of March (written at Lolham Brigs) | |
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To my Cottage | |
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In Hilly Wood | |
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To Autumn | |
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from The Parish | |
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[Miss Peevish Scornful] | |
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The Progress of Cant | |
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The Overseer | |
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from The Shepherd's Calendar (1827) | |
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January | |
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from March | |
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from May | |
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from June | |
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from July [manuscript version] | |
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from September | |
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from October [manuscript draft] | |
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from December | |
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The Moors | |
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from The Midsummer Cushion | |
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Shadows of Taste | |
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Childhood | |
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The Moorhen's Nest | |
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The Progress of Rhyme | |
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Remembrances | |
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Swordy Well | |
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Emmonsails Heath in Winter | |
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Love and Memory | |
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The Fallen Elm | |
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The Landrail | |
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Pastoral Poesy | |
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The Wren | |
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Wood Pictures in Spring | |
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The Hollow Tree | |
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The Sand Martin | |
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from The Rural Muse (1835) | |
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from To the Rural Muse | |
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Autumn | |
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The Nightingale's Nest | |
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The Eternity of Nature | |
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Emmonsales Heath | |
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Decay: A Ballad | |
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The Pettichap's Nest | |
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The Yellowhammer's Nest | |
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The Skylark | |
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First Love's Recollections | |
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Summer Moods | |
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Evening Schoolboys | |
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The Shepherd Boy | |
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Lord Byron | |
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To the Memory of Bloomfield | |
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Beans in Blossom | |
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To De Wint | |
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Sudden Shower | |
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Stepping Stones | |
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Pleasant Places | |
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On Leaving the Cottage of my Birth | |
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Poems Written at Northborough | |
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To the Snipe | |
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[The Lament of Swordy Well] | |
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Snowstorm | |
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Bumbarrel's Nest | |
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Open Winter | |
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[Double Sonnet on the Marten] | |
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[Sonnet Sequence on Fox and Badger] | |
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[Field-Mouse's Nest] | |
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[Birds at Evening] | |
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[Trespass] | |
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Glinton Spire | |
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Poems Written at the High Beach Asylum | |
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A Walk in the Forest | |
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London versus Epping Forest | |
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The Gypsy Camp | |
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Two songs and some stanzas from Child Harold: Song ("The sun has gone down with a veil on his brow") | |
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[stanzas] ("Mary, thou ace of hearts, thou muse of song") | |
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[song] Written in a Thunderstorm July 15th 1841 | |
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Don Juan: A Poem | |
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Poems and Prose Written at Northborough, Between Two Asylums | |
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Recollections of Journey from Essex [prose account] | |
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Two songs for Child Harold: Song a ("I've wandered many a weary mile") | |
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Song b ("Here's where Mary loved to be") | |
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[Prose sketch]: "Closes of greensward" | |
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[Lines Written on St Martin's Day, 11 November 1841, manuscript text] | |
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Poetry Written While an Inmate of the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum | |
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Graves of Infants | |
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Stanzas ("Black absence hides upon the past") | |
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To Mary | |
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A Vision | |
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Sonnet ("Poets love nature") | |
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An Invite to Eternity | |
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The Dying Child | |
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The Invitation | |
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Lines: "I Am" | |
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Sonnet: "I Am" | |
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Song ("True love lives in absence") | |
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My Early Home Was This | |
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The Winter's Spring | |
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Sonnet: Wood Anemone | |
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Sonnet: The Crow | |
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Pleasant Sounds | |
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Clock-a-clay | |
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Childhood | |
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To be Placed at the Back of his Portrait | |
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The Yellowhammer | |
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How Can I Forget | |
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To John Clare | |
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Birds' Nests | |
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Glossary | |
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Sources | |
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Index | |