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A d a m s , Th e r e s a , 1 9 4 1 6 2 , 1 6 4 , 1 6 9 , 1 7 0 – 7 , 1 8 1 , 1 8 5 – 9 , 1 9 0 , A d c o c k , A n n a , 8 5 1 9 1 , 1 9 2 A e s o p , 1 6 3 Th e Banks of Wye , 8 6 A l l n a t t , J u d i t h ‘ Th e Blind Boy’, 39 Th e Poet’s Wife , 4 ‘ Th e B r o k e n C r u t c h ’ , 8 6 , 9 2 , 1 6 2 , 1 6 4 , 1 7 1 – 3 , A n g l e t o n , J a m e s , 4 8 1 7 7 , 1 8 5 – 7 A r t i s , E d m u n d , 5 , 2 2 , 1 9 1 ‘ Th e Drunken Father’, 92 , 171 A s h b y , J o s e p h , 9 3 Th e Farmer’s Boy , 9 2 – 6 , 9 9 , 1 5 4 , 1 5 6 A t k i n , J o h n , 7 2 Good Tidings , 173 Atwood, Margaret ‘ Th e H o r k e y ’ , 9 2 , 1 6 9 , 1 7 4 – 7 , 1 8 1 ‘ B l u e b e a r d ’ s E g g ’ , 1 6 0 May Day with the Muses , 9 1 – 2 , 1 1 0 , 1 7 1 , 1 8 8 Th e Remains of Robert Bloomfi eld , 9 7 Bains, Mary (Granny Bains), 161 , 163–4 , 169 , ‘ R i c h a r d a n d K a t e ’ , 8 6 , 1 6 2 , 1 6 4 , 1 9 0 1 7 6 , 1 8 3 , 1 9 0 ‘Rosamund’s Song of Hope’, 171 B a r r e l l , J o h n , 4 5 , 4 7 ‘ R o s y H a n n a h ’ , 1 0 0 – 1 Th e Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place, Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs , 100 1730–1840: An Approach to the Poetry ‘To a Spindle’, 173 , 181 of John Clare , 216 ‘To My Old Oak Table’, 88 , 91 Barrell, John and John Bull ‘ Th e Widow to her Hour-glass’, 92 , 173 , Th e Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse , 1 1 8 1 8 1 , 1 8 3 B a t e , J o n a t h a n , 3 6 , 1 2 1 , 1 4 8 Wild Flowers , 8 6 John Clare, A Biography , 164 B l o o m fi e l d , R o b e r t H e n r y , 8 7 B e a t t i e , J a m e s , 1 9 Bluebeard , 160–1 Th e Minstrel , 1 9 , 4 5 , 7 0 Blunden, Edmund, 5 B e c k f o r d , W i l l i a m , 1 8 B l y t h e , R o n a l d , 8 5 , 1 3 4 , 1 7 4 B e h n e s , H e n r y , 8 5 B o d e n , H e l e n , 2 2 7 Bennion, Th o m a s , 5 , 8 9 B o n a p a r t e , N a p o l e o n , 6 0 , 1 3 2 B e v a n , A n e u r i n , 1 2 1 Boustead, Christopher Bible , 4 4 , 8 6 , 1 0 6 , 1 0 8 , 1 0 9 , 1 1 2 , 1 1 7 , 1 3 1 , 1 4 2 , ‘A Wild, Wet Martinmas Saturday Night’, 1 8 2 , 1 8 3 , 1 8 4 , 2 1 7 , 2 2 9 1 5 2 – 3 Blackwoods , 7 6 Bowles, William Lisle, 1 B l a k e , W i l l i a m , 4 5 , 1 2 1 B r a i n , R u s s e l l , 2 0 1 ‘ Th e Ecchoing Green’, 115 Brand, John, 150 ‘London’, 121 B r a w n e f a m i l y , 7 6 B l a m i r e s , D a v i d , 1 6 0 – 1 Brewer, E. Cobham, 150 B l o o m , H a r o l d , 4 3 B r o n t ë , E m i l y , 8 2 B l o o m fi e l d , C h a r l e s , 8 7 B r o w n , C h a r l e s A r m i t a g e , 7 6 , 8 4 B l o o m fi eld, Hannah, 87 , 100 B u l l i m o r e , M r s , 5 6 , 5 7 B l o o m fi e l d , N a t h a n i e l , 1 , 9 8 B u n y a n , J o h n B l o o m fi e l d , R o b e r t , 1 , 5 , 7 , 1 3 , 1 4 , 2 2 , 3 9 , 4 4 , 5 8 , Th e Pilgrim’s Progress , 119 5 9 , 6 7 , 7 6 , 8 4 , 8 6 – 1 0 1 , 1 1 0 , 1 2 4 , 1 5 6 , B u r n s , R o b e r t , 1 1 , 1 4 , 2 5 , 3 5 , 3 9 , 8 4 , 8 5

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‘ Th e Cotter’s Saturday Night’, 172 a n d S h a k e s p e a r e , 7 , 2 0 , 2 1 , 4 2 , 1 3 9 ‘ Th e Humble Petition of Bruar Water to the and the London Magazine , 5 , 2 8 , 2 9 , 6 1 , 8 9 , Noble Duke of Athol’, 218 191 ‘ T a m o ’ S h a n t e r ’ , 8 5 a n d t h e R a n t e r s , 9 6 , 9 7 ‘To a Mountain Daisy, on Turning one a s o u t s i d e r , 5 – 7 , 8 , 1 9 1 , 1 9 3 Down with the Plough, in April, a s s o c i a b l e p o e t , 3 , 5 – 7 , 8 , 5 8 , 1 9 1 , 1 9 3 1 7 8 6 ’ , 2 5 a s y l u m p e r i o d , 3 , 5 , 8 , 1 1 , 2 7 , 3 3 – 4 , 8 4 – 5 , 9 0 , B y r o n , L o r d , 3 , 2 2 , 3 3 , 6 0 , 8 2 , 9 8 , 1 2 3 1 2 3 , 1 2 8 , 1 9 1 , 2 2 2 Childe Harold , 3 3 combination of popular and literary forms, Don Juan , 2 1 , 8 2 , 1 6 2 3 , 6 , 4 0 , 4 4 , 1 0 1 , 1 0 5 , 1 0 8 – 9 , 1 1 2 , English Bards and Scotch Reviewers , 9 8 1 4 9 – 5 0 , 1 8 9 c o m p a r e d t o B l o o m fi eld by contemporaries, C a r t e r , A n g e l a 8 7 ‘ Th e Bloody Chamber’, 160 c o r r e s p o n d e n c e , 6 1 , 1 2 8 C a r y , H e n r y F r a n c i s , 2 0 , 2 1 – 2 , 6 1 , 9 7 , 9 8 w i t h J o h n A t k i n , 7 2 C a t c o t t , A l e x a n d e r , 2 2 w i t h Th omas Bennion, 195 C a u n t , B e n , 3 3 w i t h H a n n a h B l o o m fi e l d , 1 0 0 Chartist poets, 131 with Robert Bloomfi e l d , 8 7 – 8 , 9 0 – 1 Chatterton, Th o m a s , 6 , 1 1 – 2 7 , 3 0 – 3 , 3 4 – 5 , 3 6 , with Henry Behnes, 85 4 1 , 4 2 , 5 9 , 6 9 , 8 3 – 4 , 1 9 0 , 1 9 1 , 1 9 2 w i t h H e n r y F r a n c i s C a r y , 2 1 – 2 , 9 7 , 9 8 ‘ A e l l a ’ , 2 1 , 2 4 , 2 6 w i t h A l l a n C u n n i n g h a m , 8 6 , 9 8 , 1 2 4 , 1 6 2 ‘ Th e Battle of Hastings [no. 1]’, 23 w i t h E d w a r d D r u r y , 8 6 ‘ Th e B a t t l e o f H a s t i n g s [ n o . 2 ] ’ , 2 0 , 2 1 , 2 4 w i t h E l i z a E m m e r s o n , 3 , 6 4 , 7 9 , 1 9 5 ‘ B r i d g e N a r r a t i v e ’ , 3 1 – 2 w i t h O c t a v i u s G i l c h r i s t , 1 8 1 , 2 0 9 ‘A Brief Account of William Cannings’, 32 w i t h J . B . H e n s o n , 1 2 , 1 4 , 1 6 ‘ C l i f t o n ’ , 2 7 w i t h J a m e s H e s s e y , 6 7 – 9 , 7 0 , 8 4 , 9 1 , 1 6 2 , ‘ E l e g y [ i i i ] ’ , 2 5 1 8 2 , 1 9 5 , 2 2 6 ‘ A n E x c e l e n t e B a l a d e o f C h a r i t i e ’ , 2 1 , 2 4 w i t h I s a i a h K n o w l e s H o l l a n d , 8 6 , 1 8 1 ‘ K e w G a r d e n s ’ , 1 4 w i t h J o h n H o l l a n d , 1 9 5 Miscellanies in Prose and Verse , 3 2 with William Hone, 32 , 119 , 227 ‘ O n n o u r e L a d i e s C h i r c h ’ , 2 6 w i t h Th o m a s I n s k i p , 8 6 , 8 9 – 9 0 , 9 6 – 7 , 9 8 ‘ Th e R e s i g n a t i o n ’ , 1 5 with Herbert Marsh, 207 Rowley Poems , 2 1 , 2 3 , 2 4 w i t h M a r i a n n e M a r s h , 2 2 1 ‘ S o n g e t o A e l l a ’ , 2 0 , 2 5 with James Montgomery, 195 ‘ Th e Storie of Wyllyam Canynge’, 26 w i t h Th o m a s P r i n g l e , 8 5 ‘ Th e T o u r n a m e n t ’ , 2 4 with John Pooley, 85 , 195 C h a u c e r , G e o ff r e y , 1 6 0 with George Reid, 84 , 195 Th e Canterbury Tales , 9 1 w i t h E d w a r d R i p p i n g i l l e , 1 3 2 ‘ Th e Pardoner’s Tale’, 174 with Markham E. Sherwill, 88 C h i r i c o , P a u l , 6 1 , 8 3 , 1 9 6 w i t h J o h n T a y l o r , 1 3 , 2 4 , 2 8 , 3 9 , 6 1 – 4 , C h r i s t i e , J o n a t h a n H e n r y , 7 6 6 5 – 7 , 7 0 – 3 , 7 5 – 8 1 , 8 5 , 8 7 , 8 9 , 9 0 , 1 2 6 , Clare, Alice (Clare’s grandmother), 162 , 165 1 5 7 , 1 6 9 , 1 8 0 , 1 8 1 , 1 9 5 , 2 1 4 , 2 2 6 C l a r e , A n n ( C l a r e ’ s m o t h e r ) , 1 5 , 1 6 , 1 9 , 3 8 , 1 6 9 , with Chauncey Hare Townsend, 88 , 195 181–2 w i t h A l a r i c W a t t s , 1 C l a r e , A n n a M a r i a ( C l a r e ’ s d a u g h t e r ) , 8 0 w i t h J o s e p h W e s t o n , 9 7 , 9 8 C l a r e , E l i z a L o u i s a ( C l a r e ’ s d a u g h t e r ) , 8 9 e n c l o s u r e e l e g i e s , 7 , 9 8 , 1 0 5 – 3 3 , 1 3 4 – 5 Clare, Elizabeth (Bessy) (Clare’s twin sister), 6 g r a v e s t o n e d r a w i n g s , 1 3 , 1 4 , 2 2 , 5 9 , 6 0 , 8 6 , C l a r e , J o h a n n e , 1 5 , 1 0 5 2 0 0 John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance , interest in natural cycles and patterns, 11 , 1 0 5 1 3 5 , 1 3 8 – 4 0 C l a r e , J o h n , 7 0 l i t e r a r y d e c e p t i o n s , 1 6 , 2 0 , 2 7 – 3 3 a n d g y p s i e s , 4 , 1 1 3 , 1 1 4 , 1 6 6 , 1 9 1 ‘madness’ and mental health issues, 3 , 4 , 5 , a n d l a b o u r i n g - c l a s s p o e t r y , 1 , 3 7 , 3 9 , 5 2 , 1 1 – 1 2 , 2 2 , 2 7 , 3 3 – 4 , 9 6 , 2 0 1 8 3 – 6 , 8 7 , 9 1 , 9 8 , 1 0 5 , 1 8 8 – 9 poetry a n d S c o t l a n d , 1 4 , 3 5 , 8 4 – 6 ‘Address to a Lark, singing in Winter’, 87

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‘Address to an Insignifi cant Flower ‘How blest is he—the happiest mortal Obscurely Blooming in a Lonely known’, 203 W i l d ’ , 3 6 , 5 1 – 2 ‘ Th e humble fl owers that buds upon the ‘After Hearing Rural Ryhmes of W.H. p l a i n ’ , 5 2 Praisd by a Lady’, 203 ‘ I A m ’ , 8 2 , 1 9 1 ‘After reading in a Letter proposals for ‘In bed she like a lily lay’, 223 building a Cottage’, 43–4 , 74 ‘In Hilly Wood’, 206 ‘And Must We Part?’, 196 ‘ A n I n v i t e t o E t e r n i t y ’ , 2 7 ‘ A u g u s t ’ , 9 5 ‘Ive long been urgd friend for to write ye ‘ A u t u m n ’ , 7 5 a l e t t e r ’ , 4 0 ‘ Th e Autumn Robin’, 12 ‘Jean Bell, A Ballad’, 45 ‘ Th e Badger’, 6 , 131 , 159 , 162 ‘ J u l y ’ , 5 0 , 9 4 ‘Ballad’ (‘On martinmas Eve the dogs ‘ Th e Lament of Swordy Well’, 107 , 112 , they did bark’), 226 1 1 8 – 2 3 , 1 3 0 , 1 3 1 , 1 3 8 , 1 4 1 , 1 6 2 ‘Birds Nesting’, 135 ‘ Th e Lamentation of Round Oak Waters’, ‘Boys at Play’, 227 1 0 8 – 1 2 , 1 3 2 ‘By lonesom Woods & Unfrequented ‘ Th e Last of Summer’, 74 Streams’, 218 ‘ L a n g l e y B u s h ’ , 1 1 2 – 1 4 , 1 2 3 ‘ C a u p e r G r e e n ’ , 7 3 ‘Lines on the Death of Mrs Bullimore’, ‘ C h i l d H a r o l d ’ , 1 1 9 , 1 9 6 , 2 2 1 5 6 , 2 0 6 ‘ Th e childern by the cottage trees’, 74 ‘Lines Written While Viewing Some Cottage Tales , 162 Remains of an Human Body in ‘ Th e C r a b T r e e ’ , 2 5 L o l h a m L a n e ’ , 5 7 ‘ C r a z y N e l l ’ , 1 5 4 , 1 5 6 ‘ Th e Lodge House’, 39 , 62 , 67 , 177 ‘ Th e Cress Gatherer’, 226 ‘ M a r c h ’ , 5 0 , 1 9 7 , 2 2 3 , 2 2 7 ‘ Th e Cross Roads or Haymakers Story’, ‘Martinmass Eve’, 157 , 158–9 1 6 1 , 1 6 4 , 1 6 6 , 1 7 7 – 8 0 , 1 8 4 , 1 8 8 ‘ Th e Meeting’, 61 ‘ D a m o n a n d C o l l i n ’ , 7 2 ‘ Th e Memory of Love, A Tale’, 229 ‘ D e c a y ’ , 1 3 1 Th e Midsummer Cushion , 6 , 3 1 , 8 7 , 9 8 , ‘Dobson and Judie or Th e Cottage’, 160 203 ‘ Th e Mole Catcher’, 53 ‘Don Juan a Poem’, 142 , 221 ‘ Th e Moorehens Nest’, 136 ‘ Th e driving clouds in dark condension ‘ Th e M o r e s ’ , 4 4 , 1 0 7 , 1 1 8 , 1 2 5 – 3 1 , 1 6 1 h u n g ’ , 5 0 ‘ Th e Mothers Advice’, 204 ‘Edmund & Helen or the Suecide’, 30 ‘Musings of Melancholly’, 157 ‘Elegy […] in the Ruins of Pickworth’, ‘ M y M a r y ’ , 2 1 6 4 5 , 5 7 – 8 ‘ Th e N i g h t i n g a l e s N e s t ’ , 6 3 , 1 3 4 , 1 3 7 ‘ Th e Eternity of Nature’, 139 ‘ N o o n ’ , 4 7 ‘ E v e n i n g ’ , 8 7 , 1 4 4 Northborough Sonnets , 9 8 ‘ E x p e c t a t i o n ’ , 2 2 1 ‘ N o v e m b e r ’ , 9 3 ‘ Th e F a l l e n E l m ’ , 2 3 , 1 1 2 , 1 1 6 – 1 8 , 1 2 3 , 1 3 1 Th e Parish , 4 4 , 7 4 , 1 1 9 ‘ F a l l i n g L e a v e s ’ , 5 4 ‘ P a s t i m e i n S u m m e r ’ , 7 4 ‘ Th e Fate of Amy’, 6 , 181 ‘ Th e Pettichaps Nest’, 135–6 ‘ Th e Fate of Genius’, 205 ‘ P e w i t s N e s t ’ , 1 4 3 – 4 ‘ Th e Flitting’, 131 Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and ‘Going to the Fair’, 164 Scenery , 4 1 , 4 4 , 8 7 , 1 1 1 , 1 5 4 ‘Green hills of nature’, 223 ‘ Th e P o e t s W i s h ’ , 4 1 – 3 , 4 4 ‘ Th e hawthorn gently stopt the sun, ‘ Th e P r i m r o s e ’ , 1 7 b e n e a t h ’ , 8 8 ‘ Th e Progress of Ryhme’, 127 ‘ Th e heart of Midlothian is nearly my ‘ Th e Ravens Nest’, 148 o w n ’ , 8 4 ‘ A R e g r e t ’ , 2 2 2 ‘He waits all day beside his little fl ock’, ‘ R e m e m b r a n c e s ’ , 1 0 7 , 1 3 1 – 3 215 ‘ Th e Resignation’, 15–16 , 17 ‘ H e l p s t o n e ’ , 4 4 , 1 0 6 – 7 , 1 0 8 ‘ Th e Rivals, A Pastoral’, 229 ‘ H e l p s t o n e G r e e n ’ , 1 1 5 – 1 6 , 1 2 0 ‘ Th e Robins Nest’, 205

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Clare, John (cont.) ‘ V a l e n t i n e E v e ’ , 9 2 ‘ R u r a l E v e n i n g ’ , 4 7 Th e Village Minstrel , 4 3 , 7 2 , 7 5 , 8 1 , 9 0 , ‘ R u r a l M o r n i n g ’ , 4 7 1 0 7 , 1 1 1 Th e Rural Muse , 8 1 , 1 3 6 , 1 6 0 ‘ Th e V i l l a g e M i n s t r e l ’ , 1 9 , 2 5 – 6 , 4 4 , 7 0 , ‘Rural Scenes’ (‘I never saw a man in all 1 0 7 – 8 , 1 2 4 my days’), 74 ‘ W h a t i s L i f e ? ’ , 9 0 , 9 1 ‘ S t M a r t i n s E v e ’ , 6 , 7 , 7 3 , 1 4 9 – 6 2 , 1 6 4 – 5 , ‘Where on bridge wall or gate or trees 1 6 6 – 8 , 1 7 6 , 1 9 0 , 1 9 2 s m o o t h b a r k ’ , 5 4 ‘ S a n d M a r t i n ’ , 7 4 ‘ Th e Wild Bull’, 147–8 ‘ Th e Sequel to John Barleycorn’, 219 ‘William and Robin’, 72 ‘ Th e Setting Sun’, 12 , 17 ‘ A W i n t e r W i s h ’ , 4 0 – 1 , 4 4 Th e Shepherd’s Calendar , 5 0 , 9 3 – 6 , 9 8 , ‘ Th e W i s h ’ , 3 6 , 3 9 – 4 0 , 4 1 , 4 4 1 9 7 , 2 2 3 ‘ W r i t t e n i n P r i s o n ’ , 2 2 2 ‘ Th e Sky Lark’, 144–7 ‘ Th e Yellow Hammers Nest’, 105–6 , 117 , ‘ Th e Sky Lark Leaving Her Nest’, 146 1 3 6 – 4 3 , 1 4 4 , 1 9 7 ‘ Th e Skylark’, 222 ‘poor Clare’ model, 3–5 ‘ S u m m e r E v e n i n g ’ , 4 5 – 7 prose ‘ S u m m e r I m a g e s ’ , 2 4 – 5 a u t o b i o g r a p h i c a l w r i t i n g s , 1 4 , 1 6 – 1 7 , ‘ S u m m e r M o r n i n g ’ , 4 7 , 8 7 1 9 – 2 0 , 2 1 , 3 6 , 3 8 , 4 4 , 5 5 , 6 5 , 1 3 7 , 1 4 2 , ‘ S o l i t u d e ’ , 6 2 1 4 4 , 1 4 9 , 1 6 3 , 1 6 5 , 1 6 9 , 1 8 1 , 2 2 9 ‘Some account of my Kin, my Tallents & ‘ E s s a y o n P o p u l a r i t y ’ , 1 9 8 m y s e l f ’ , 2 8 – 9 ‘ E x c u r s i o n w i t h t h e A n g l e r ’ , 3 1 , 3 2 ‘Song’ (‘Swamps of wild rush beds & ‘ Th e Farmer and the Vicar’, 198 sloughs squashy traces’), 181 j o u r n a l , 2 0 – 1 , 2 4 , 4 6 , 5 5 , 6 9 , 1 1 4 , 2 1 8 ‘ S o n g ’ ( ‘ Th e rushbeds touched the boiling ‘Letter to William Hone’, 119 , 149 , 227 s t r e a m ’ ) ’ , 9 8 – 1 0 1 n a t u r a l h i s t o r y w r i t i n g s , 2 0 , 2 1 , 2 4 , 2 5 , 1 3 7 ‘ S o n g T o h i s W i f e ’ , 2 2 2 ‘ Th e Will o Whisp or Jack a Lanthorn’, 201 ‘ S o n n e t ’ ( ‘ Th ere is a charm which poesy ‘ Th e Woodman’, 83 , 154 holds of nought beside’), 53 resistance to prescriptive or systematic ‘ Th e Sorrows of Love Or Th e Broken critical approaches, 8 Heart A Tale’, 6 , 182–5 , 188 v i s i t s t o L o n d o n , 2 2 , 2 8 , 6 1 , 8 9 , 9 7 ‘ Th e Th istle’, 124 C l a r e , M a r t h a ( P a t t y ) ( C l a r e ’ s w i f e ) , 2 2 , 9 6 ‘ Th oughts in a Churchyard’, 31 C l a r e , P a r k e r ( C l a r e ’ s f a t h e r ) , 3 8 , 4 0 , 4 5 , 1 2 0 , ‘ Th rice Welcome to thy song sweet 1 4 2 , 1 4 5 , 1 6 9 , 1 8 1 , 1 9 0 – 1 warbling thrush’, 221 C o b b e t t , W i l l i a m , 1 1 8 , 1 2 3 ‘To a Favourite Tree’, 219 Political Register , 118 ‘To an Infant Sister in Heaven’, 196 C o l e r i d g e , S a m u e l T a y l o r , 1 , 6 0 , 1 9 8 ‘To an Oaten Reed’, 215 ‘ Th e Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, 162 ‘ T o F o r t i t u d e ’ , 4 5 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor and Robert Southey ‘To John Clare’, 191–2 ‘ Th e Devil’s Walk’, 131 ‘To John Milton, From his Honoured C o l l i e r , M a r y f r i e n d W i l l i a m D a v e n a n t ’ , 3 1 ‘ Th e Th ree Wise Sentences’, 38 ‘To Mrs Anna Adcock Author of “Cottage Community P o e m s ” ’ , 8 5 l i t e r a r y c o m m u n i t y , 3 , 5 , 6 – 8 , 2 3 , 3 4 , 3 5 , 3 6 , ‘ T o O b s c u r i t y ’ , 5 1 4 1 , 5 8 , 5 9 , 6 7 , 9 1 , 9 8 , 1 0 5 , 1 6 9 , 1 9 0 , ‘To the Memory of Bloomﬁ e l d ’ , 9 7 – 8 , 1 9 1 , 1 9 2 9 9 , 1 0 0 v i l l a g e c o m m u n i t y , 3 , 6 – 7 , 2 3 , 7 0 , 9 2 , 9 8 , ‘To the Memory of James Merrishaw a 1 0 5 , 1 3 5 , 1 4 8 , 1 4 9 , 1 5 4 , 1 5 6 , 1 5 9 , 1 6 4 , V i l l a g e S c h o o l m a s t e r ’ , 5 6 – 7 1 6 9 , 1 7 2 , 1 8 8 , 1 8 9 , 1 9 0 – 3 , 2 1 9 ‘To the Memory of Keats’, 78–9 , 81 C o r n w a l l , B a r r y , 8 0 ‘ T o t h e M u s e ’ , 3 4 – 5 C o r r i , H a y d n , 6 1 ‘To the Snipe’, 131 C o t t o n , C h a r l e s , 3 1 ‘To the Violet’, 203 C o w p e r , W i l l i a m , 3 6 , 4 4 , 1 3 8 , 1 5 5 – 6 ‘To the Welland’, 40 Th e Task , 154 , 155–6 ‘ Th e T w o S o l d i e r s ’ , 3 9 , 1 7 2 , 1 7 6 – 7 , 1 7 9 ‘ Y a r d l e y O a k ’ , 1 1 3 , 1 1 4 , 1 1 7

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C r a b b e , G e o r g e , 4 4 , 9 8 , 1 2 4 – 5 E n c l o s u r e , 3 , 7 , 4 4 , 8 6 , 1 0 5 – 3 3 , 1 3 4 , 1 3 5 , 1 4 9 , Th e Village , 110 1 6 1 , 1 8 7 Crocker, Charles E p s t e i n , W i l l i a m , 4 8 ‘Lines, Occasioned by Reading the E v a n s , J o h n Following Stanza of Gray’s Th e Parnassian Garland , 1 , 3 9 E l e g y ’ , 5 3 E v e r s o l e , R i c h a r d , 5 6 C r o s s a n , G r e g , 8 , 5 0 , 8 3 , 1 9 6 C u n n i n g h a m , A l l a n , 4 5 , 8 4 , 8 6 , 9 8 , 1 2 4 , 1 9 1 Farrow, Will, 163 C u n n i n g h a m , J o h n , 3 7 , 4 6 , 5 8 , 7 2 F e i n s t e i n , E l a i n e , 4 5 ‘ Th e Contemplatist, A Night Piece’, 45 Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal , 3 2 ‘ D a y ’ , 4 5 , 4 6 , 4 7 F e r g u s s o n , R o b e r t , 8 4 , 8 5 ‘Elegy on a Pile of Ruins’, 45 Fitter, R. S. R., 139 , 140 ‘ K i t t y F e l l ’ , 4 5 Fitter, R. S. R. and R. A. Richardson Poems, Chiefl y Pastoral , 4 5 Collins Pocket Guide to Nests and Eggs , 1 3 9 , Currie, James 1 4 0 Th e Works of Robert Burns , 8 4 F i t z w i l l i a m , E a r l , 9 1 F o u l d s , A d a m D a c k , C h a r l e s , 1 5 0 Th e Quickening Maze , 4 D a r l i n g , G e o r g e , 2 2 , 6 0 , 6 8 , 6 8 , 9 6 F o x , A d a m , 1 6 9 , 1 8 7 D a v e n a n t , W i l l i a m , 3 1 Oral and Literate Culture in England Davie, Donald, 211 , 213 1500–1700 , 1 6 9 , 1 8 7 D a v i s , J o h n , 1 5 , 1 7 – 2 0 Frazer, J. G. Th e Life of Th omas Chatterton , 1 5 , 1 7 – 2 0 , Th e Golden Bough , 154 2 6 F r i t h , R o g e r , 1 4 Dawson, Paul, 138 F u l f o r d , T i m , 2 2 8 D e W i l d e , J . G . , 3 3 Defoe, Daniel G a y , J o h n Robinson Crusoe , 4 4 Th e Shepherd’s Week , 4 3 D e r m o d y , Th o m a s , 1 , 3 9 G e o r g e i i i , 3 3 ‘Death of the Good Man’, 39 G e o r g i c p o e t r y , 3 6 , 9 4 , 9 5 , 1 1 7 , 1 3 7 , 1 3 8 , 2 1 9 Desert Island Discs , 134 G i b s o n , W i l l i a m , 5 9 , 6 2 Dickens, Charles Gibson, William and Bruce Sterling Great Expectations , 197 Th e Diff erence Engine , 5 9 Dictionary of National Biography , 174 G i l c h r i s t , O c t a v i u s , 5 , 2 2 , 7 3 , 7 6 , 8 6 , 9 6 , 1 8 1 , 2 0 2 D i x , J o h n ‘Some Account of John Clare, An Th e Life of Th omas Chatterton , 1 7 A g r i c u l t u r a l L a b o u r e r a n d P o e t ’ , 8 6 D o n n e , J o h n , 3 1 G i t t i n g s , R o b e r t , 6 7 , 7 1 , 7 6 D r u r y , E d w a r d , 5 , 3 8 , 6 8 , 7 2 , 8 6 , 8 7 , 8 8 , 1 6 2 Glover, Elizabeth (Robert Bloomfi eld’s D u c k , S t e p h e n , 2 0 m o t h e r ) , 1 7 7 ‘ Th e Th r e s h e r ’ s L a b o u r ’ , 8 3 G o l d s m i t h , O l i v e r , 4 4 , 5 7 – 8 , 1 0 6 , 1 2 4 , 1 2 5 , Dudley, Dean, 197 1 4 1 , 1 9 0 Dyer, John, 124 , 147 Th e Deserted Village , 4 4 , 5 7 – 8 , 9 2 , 1 0 6 , 1 1 0 , Th e Fleece , 124 , 194 1 2 0 , 1 5 4 , 2 1 9 ‘ G r o n g a r H i l l ’ , 4 6 G o o d r i d g e , F r a n k , 8 ‘ M y O x D u k e ’ , 1 4 7 Goodridge, John and Kelsey Th ornton ‘John Clare: Th e Trespasser’, 4 Edinburgh Review , 7 3 Gorji, Mina, 196 E l l i o t t , E b e n e z e r Graves, Robert, 113 ‘ C o r n - L a w R h y m e s ’ , 1 3 1 Gray, Th o m a s , 2 , 3 7 , 4 6 , 4 7 – 5 8 , 8 5 , 1 1 1 , 1 4 1 , 1 5 0 , Elliott, Robert, 189 1 6 4 – 5 , 1 9 0 , 1 9 1 ‘On Visiting My Birthplace After an ‘ Th e B a r d ’ , 1 6 , 1 0 8 Absence of Twenty Years’, 189 Elegy in a Country Churchyard , 2 , 1 9 , 3 1 , 4 3 , E l l i s , R . J . , 4 8 4 7 – 5 8 , 7 4 , 1 0 5 , 1 1 1 , 1 2 0 E m m e r s o n , E l i z a , 2 , 5 , 2 2 , 6 4 , 7 7 , 7 9 ‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College’, E m p s o n , W i l l i a m , 4 8 1 6 4 – 5

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Gregory, George K e a t s , J o h n , 7 , 1 3 , 1 4 , 2 2 , 2 8 , 5 8 , 5 9 – 8 2 , 8 4 , 8 8 , ‘ Th e Life of Th o m a s C h a t t e r t o n ’ , 1 7 9 6 , 1 3 6 , 1 4 1 , 1 4 2 , 1 4 6 , 1 5 0 , 1 5 1 – 2 , 1 6 5 , G r o o m , N i c k , 1 9 9 1 8 2 , 1 9 1 , 1 9 2 ‘ T o A u t u m n ’ , 6 9 , 7 0 , 7 3 , 7 4 , 1 5 2 Haldane, Sean, 201 ‘ B r i g h t S t a r ’ , 7 4 Hammond, J. L. and B. Endymion , 6 1 , 6 2 – 4 , 6 9 , 7 0 , 7 3 , 7 9 , 8 2 Th e Village Labourer, 1760–1832 , 4 8 ‘ Th e Eve of St Agnes’, 73 , 80 , 151 , 152 , 162 H a n k i n s o n , R o b e r t E d w a r d s , 8 8 ‘ Th e Fall of Hyperion, A Dream’, 128 H a r d y , Th omas ‘ F a n c y ’ , 7 9 Tess of the d’Urbervilles , 1 6 6 , 1 7 2 ‘ H y p e r i o n ’ , 6 8 , 7 0 , 8 0 , 1 2 8 H a r r i s o n , T o n y , 8 2 , 1 2 2 , 1 4 2 ‘ I s a b e l l a ’ , 6 8 , 6 9 ‘A Kumquat for John Keats’, 82 , 142 ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, 111 ‘National Trust’, 122 ‘ L a m i a ’ , 7 0 , 1 4 2 H a y w o o d , I a n , 9 2 , 1 9 6 Lamia, Isabella, Th e Eve of St Agnes, and H a z l i t t , W i l l i a m , 6 1 Other Poems , 6 3 – 4 , 6 5 – 7 1 , 7 3 , 7 9 , 8 2 Heaney, Seamus, 120 ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, 79 H e n d e r s o n , J o s e p h , 5 , 2 1 , 2 2 , 9 1 , 1 9 1 ‘ O d e o n M e l a n c h o l y ’ , 6 9 , 7 9 , 1 3 6 , 1 4 1 H e n s o n , J . B . , 1 2 , 1 7 ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, 141 , 146 , 151 , 182 H e r b e r t , G e o r g e , 3 1 o n C l a r e , 6 2 , 7 1 – 2 H e s s e y , J a m e s , 5 , 2 4 , 2 8 , 6 0 , 6 1 , 6 7 – 8 , 6 9 , 8 4 , Poems , 6 1 8 9 , 9 1 , 1 6 2 , 1 8 2 K e a t s , T o m , 7 0 H e y e s , B o b , 6 5 K e e g a n , B r i d g e t , 1 1 6 , 1 2 1 H i l t o n , W i l l i a m , 2 8 , 6 0 , 6 1 , 6 7 , 2 2 6 Kent, Elizabeth Hogarth, William Flora Domestica , 2 4 ‘ Th e D i s t r e s s e d P o e t ’ , 4 2 Kenyon, Joe H o g g , J a m e s , 8 4 , 9 8 A Passion for Justice , 9 4 H o l e , C h r i s t i n a , 1 5 0 K i p p i s , A n d r e w H o l l a n d , I s a i a h K n o w l e s , 8 6 , 1 8 1 Biographia Britannica , 1 7 Holland, John, 195 Kitson, Mick, 8 H o m e r , 8 5 K n i g h t , W . F . , 5 , 9 8 Iliad , 8 5 K n o x , V i c e s i m u s , 1 8 , 1 9 Odyssey , 8 5 , 1 8 6 K ö v e s i , S i m o n , 1 2 1 , 2 3 0 H o n e , W i l l i a m , 3 1 – 2 , 1 4 9 Hood, Th o m a s , 2 8 L a m b , C h a r l e s , 2 8 , 6 1 H o o k e r , R i c h a r d , 3 1 L a m b e r t , J o h n , 3 0 H o p k i n s , G e r a r d M a n l e y , 4 6 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, 1 , 194 H o r a c e , 3 7 , 3 8 , 3 9 , 4 2 , 4 3 , 5 3 L a n g d y k e T r u s t , 1 2 3 ‘ S e c o n d E p o d e ’ , 4 2 L a n g l a n d , W i l l i a m , 1 2 5 H o u g h t o n - W a l k e r , S a r a g , 1 9 4 , 1 9 6 L e a d e r , Z a c h a r y , 5 H o w a r d , J o h n , 9 3 Linnaeus, Carl, 140 H u g h e s , R o b e r t , 4 8 L o c k h a r t , J o h n G i b s o n , 7 1 , 7 6 H u g h e s , T e d , 1 3 4 London Magazine , 5 , 2 0 , 2 2 , 2 8 , 2 9 , 6 1 , 7 5 , 8 6 , H u r n , D a v i d , 3 9 – 4 0 8 9 , 1 9 1 Rural Rhymes , 4 0 L o n s d a l e , R o g e r , 4 7 , 5 3 Th e New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Inskip, Th o m a s , 5 , 8 6 , 8 9 – 9 0 , 9 6 – 7 , 9 8 , 1 0 0 Verse , 3 7 L o v e , D a v i d , 5 1 J a n o w i t z , A n n , 5 L o v e m a n , S a m u e l , 6 4 – 5 ‘ J o h n B a r l e y c o r n ’ , 1 1 8 – 2 3 L u c a s , J o h n , 4 8 , 9 1 , 1 1 2 , 1 3 2 , 1 9 7 J o h n C l a r e S o c i e t y , 6 , 1 2 3 , 1 3 4 L u p t o n , H u g h J o h n s o n , S a m u e l , 4 7 , 1 3 8 Th e Ballad of John Clare , 4 Lives of the Poets , 2 2 London , 5 1 M a b e y , R i c h a r d , 1 3 7 J o n e s , J o h n , 1 2 M a c N e i l l , H e c t o r , 3 9 , 8 4 J o n e s , P e t e r , 1 8 6 ‘ Th e Female Character’, 39

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M a c p h e r s o n , J a m e s , 1 4 Windsor Forest , 216 Ossian , 1 4 P o r t e r , R o y , 2 0 1 M a h o o d , M o l l y , 1 3 4 , 1 7 9 P o w e l l , D a v i d , 1 1 8 Mallet, David P r a t t , S a m u e l J a c k s o n , 1 1 1 ‘ Th e Ballad of Edwin and Emma’, 229 Cottage Pictures of the Poor , 110 M a r s h , H e r b e r t , 2 0 7 Sympathy or a Sketch of the Social Passions , M a r t i n , F r e d e r i c k , 4 , 5 , 1 4 , 1 6 3 1 1 0 Th e Life of John Clare , 4 P r i n g l e , Th o m a s , 8 5 M a r v e l l , A n d r e w ‘Bermudas’, 128 Quarterly Review , 1 3 , 6 3 , 7 1 ‘ Th e G a r d e n ’ , 7 4 Marx, Karl, 132 R a d s t o c k , L o r d , 6 5 , 7 7 , 1 0 7 , 1 4 2 M c K u s i c k , J a m e s , 1 2 1 R a l e i g h , W a l t e r , 3 1 M e r r i s h a w , J a m e s , 5 6 – 7 R a m s a y , A l l a n , 1 4 , 3 5 , 8 4 , 8 5 M e y e r s t e i n , E . H . W . , 1 2 , 1 7 R a n d a l l , J a c k , 3 3 Millais, John Everett Reid, George, 84 , 195 Ophelia , 179 R e y n o l d s , J o h n H a m i l t o n , 2 8 , 6 1 M i l l h o u s e , R o b e r t , 5 2 , 8 5 Th e Fancy , 2 8 M i l t o n , J o h n , 3 1 , 5 1 , 1 1 1 , 1 2 5 , 1 4 2 Richardson, R. A., 139 , 140 Lycidas , 1 1 1 R i c k s , C h r i s t o p h e r , 8 2 Paradise Lost , 142 Keats and Embarrassment , 7 9 M o n t g o m e r y , J a m e s , 1 , 3 2 , 8 8 , 1 9 4 , 1 9 5 R i p p i n g i l l e , E d w a r d , 8 9 , 1 3 2 ‘ Th e C o m m o n L o t ’ , 1 , 3 2 , 3 4 Robinson, Eric, 118 M o r g a n , E d w i n , 4 5 R o c h e s t e r , L o r d , 3 1 M o t i o n , A n d r e w , 6 0 R o s s e t t i , D a n t e G a b r i e l , 1 5 R ø s t v i g , M a r e n - S o ﬁ e , 3 7 , 4 3 N a t t r a s s , L e o n o r a , 1 0 9 R o u g h m u s i c , 1 5 4 , 1 5 9 – 6 0 N e l s o n , L o r d , 3 3 R u s h t o n , E d w a r d N e w C r i t i c i s m , 4 8 ‘Neglected Genius, or, Tributary Stanzas N e w m a n , O l d S h e p h e r d , 5 5 – 6 to the Memory of the Unfortunate C h a t t e r t o n ’ , 5 3 O r w e l l , G e o r g e , 8 2 , 1 1 8 R u s s e l l , E . M . , 1 4

P a i n e , Th omas, 123 S a l e s , R o g e r , 4 , 1 5 0 , 1 9 1 Parker, John Donald (Clare’s grandfather), S c o t , R e g i n a l d 8 4 , 1 6 5 Th e Discoverie of Witchcraft , 170 P a u l i n , T o m , 1 3 1 S c o t t , J o h n , 7 5 – 7 P e a r c e , L y n n e , 2 2 7 S c o t t , W a l t e r , 2 9 , 3 0 , 3 9 , 8 4 P e l l i c e r , J u a n C h r i s t i a n , 8 2 ‘ Th e Highland Widow’, 156 P e r c y , Th o m a s , 1 6 2 , 1 6 3 , 1 8 9 Waverley , 2 9 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry , 3 1 , S e n e c a , 3 8 , 4 3 1 6 2 – 3 S e v e r n , J o s e p h , 7 6 P e t r a r c h , F r a n c e s c o , 1 0 9 Shaftesbury, Earl of, 110 P h i l i p s , J o h n S h a k e s p e a r e , W i l l i a m , 3 , 7 , 1 5 , 1 7 , 2 0 , 2 1 , 3 3 , Cyder , 9 4 1 7 9 , 1 8 2 Th e Splendid Shilling , 4 2 As You Like It , 182 Phillips, Adam, 165 Cymbeline , 139 P l a t o , 1 2 6 Hamlet , 7 7 , 1 3 2 , 1 4 3 , 1 7 9 Plumer, Th o m a s , 6 4 – 5 Henry the Fifth , 7 P o m f r e t , J o h n , 3 7 – 9 , 4 0 , 4 2 , 4 3 , 5 8 Macbeth , 7 , 4 2 ‘ Th e C h o i c e ’ , 3 7 – 8 , 3 9 , 4 3 Th e Merrie Wives of Windsor , 113 ‘ L o v e T r i u m p h a n t o v e r R e a s o n ’ , 3 8 – 9 A Midsummer Night’s Dream , 2 5 Pooley, John, 85 , 195 Othello , 6 2 P o p e , A l e x a n d e r , 2 0 , 4 1 , 8 5 , 8 6 , 1 0 6 , 1 8 0 Sonnets , 2 0 , 2 1 Pastorals , 4 6 Th e Tempest , 8 9

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S h e l l e y , P e r c y B y s s h e , 6 0 , 6 2 , 1 0 8 , 1 2 3 , 1 2 5 , Alfred, A Masque , 2 0 1 4 4 , 1 4 5 ‘ S u m m e r ’ , 9 5 ‘ A d o n a i s ’ , 7 1 Th e Seasons , 2 0 , 3 8 , 9 3 , 9 4 , 9 5 , 1 1 7 , 1 5 7 ‘ E n g l a n d i n 1 8 1 9 ’ , 1 3 1 Th ornton, Kelsey, 4 , 122 ‘ Th e Masque of Anarchy’, 131 Tib, a Tinker’s Daughter , 1 6 0 – 1 , 1 6 6 – 7 ‘Ozymandias’, 108 Tibble, J. W. and Anne, 16 , 17 , 72 , 113 ‘To a Skylark’, 144 Townsend, Chauncey Hare, 195 S h e n s t o n e , W i l l i a m , 5 7 Trehane, Emma, 5 S k r i m s h i r e , F e n w i c k , 7 7 Trick, Kerith, 201 S m i t h , C h a r l o t t e , 1 , 2 2 5 T w i t c h e t , J u d i e , 1 6 9 , 1 7 4 – 7 , 1 8 1 , 1 8 5 , Snell, K. D. M., 230 1 8 8 , 1 9 0 Somervile, William ‘ Th e Bowling Green’, 219 U n w i n , R a y n e r , 3 8 S o u t h e y , R o b e r t , 1 , 1 2 , 1 8 , 6 0 Th e Rural Muse , 3 8 Specimens of the Later English Poets , 1 8 Southey, Robert and Joseph Cottle Vardy, Alan, 4 Th e Works of Th omas Chatterton , 1 7 John Clare, Politics and Poetry , 4 Spenser, Edmund, 151 V i r g i l , 3 9 S t C l a i r , W i l l i a m , 6 , 1 0 5 Georgics , 1 2 8 S t e r l i n g , B r u c e , 5 9 , 6 2 Stimson, [fi rst name unknown], drover (Clare’s W a l p o l e , H o r a c e , 1 2 , 1 3 , 1 8 , 2 1 , 4 9 u n c l e ) , 3 8 Th e Castle of Otranto , 1 2 , 2 1 S t o r e y , M a r k , 2 5 , 2 7 , 2 8 , 2 9 , 4 5 , 6 2 , 9 1 W a l t o n , I s a a c , 5 , 3 1 , 1 9 0 S t r i c k l a n d , A g n e s , 1 1 , 1 2 , 1 4 W a r d , A i l e e n , 7 6 S u m m e r fi eld, Geoff r e y , 1 1 8 Warner, Marina, 160 John Clare, Selected Poems , 135 Watts, Alaric, 1 Swingle, L. J., 144 Wellington, Duke of, 33 S y m o n s , A r t h u r W e s t o n , J o s e p h , 9 7 , 9 8 Poems by John Clare , 5 W h i t e , G i l b e r t , 1 3 7 W h i t e , H e n r y K i r k e , 8 4 T a n n a h i l l , R o b e r t , 8 4 , 8 5 William Tell, 228 T a t e r s a l , R o b e r t , 3 7 , 4 1 , 4 3 , 4 4 W i l l i a m s , R a y m o n d , 1 2 4 , 1 9 2 ‘Day Trips to Parnassus’, 38 Keywords , 192 ‘ Th e A u t h o r ’ s W i s h ’ , 3 7 , 4 3 W i l s o n , J o h n , 8 7 ‘ Th e Bricklayer’s Labours’, 229 W o l f e , G e n e r a l , 4 7 Taylor, Donald S., 25 W o o l f , V i r g i n i a , 2 – 3 , 4 8 T a y l o r , J o h n , 4 – 5 , 1 3 , 2 2 , 2 3 , 2 8 , 3 9 , 6 0 – 2 , 6 3 – 4 , W o r d s w o r t h , W i l l i a m , 1 1 , 2 5 , 2 9 , 4 4 , 6 0 , 1 1 0 , 6 5 – 7 , 6 9 , 7 0 – 3 , 7 5 – 9 , 8 1 , 8 5 , 8 7 , 8 9 , 1 1 1 , 1 2 0 , 1 5 1 , 2 1 8 9 0 , 1 1 1 , 1 2 6 , 1 5 7 , 1 6 9 , 1 8 0 , 1 8 1 , 2 0 2 ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads , 1 1 1 ‘Introduction’ to Poems Descriptive of Rural ‘ R e s o l u t i o n a n d I n d e p e n d e n c e ’ , 1 1 Life and Scenery , 1 1 1 ‘ Th e Ruined Cottage’, 154 ‘Introduction’ to Th e Village Minstrel , 7 2 , ‘She dwelt among the untrodden 8 1 , 1 1 1 w a y s ’ , 1 2 0 T e m p l e m a n , J a m e s , 3 9 ‘ Th e Th orn’, 162 Gilbert , 3 9 ‘To the Small Celandine’, 25 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 92 W o t t o n , H e n r y , 3 1 Th e o c r i t u s , 9 8 Th ompson, E. P., 132–3 , 154 , 159 Y e a r s l e y , A n n , 1 , 8 3 Th o m s o n , J a m e s , 2 0 , 3 6 , 9 3 , 1 3 8 , 1 5 0 ‘ C l i f t o n H i l l ’ , 1 5 4