John Clare looked in places where nobody else thought to look and he became the greatest labouring-class poet. Perhaps most importantly, he showed us a way of life that has been lost forever.

The nature 19th Century poet John Clare grew up in Helpston, Cambridgeshire, which at the time was part of Northamptonshire, and wrote about the loss of the scenery he loved as a child.

Writers, like so called local ‘Mad Poet’, John Clare, incarcerated at St.Andrew ... The worlds of Jason Hemp, an English lecturer, and Dr Bent, the unlikely Medical Director of high-security ...