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 ...

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Dylan Thomas Prize; Classics Now; The Last Boy; Mick Herron award; Susan ...

She recalls the tragic story of the English poet John Clare, who was born into a family of agricultural workers in the late 18th century in the village of Helpston. His popular first book of ...

As our own cultural moment in the United States has included some prominent conversions to Catholicism, what might we learn ...

In A Dictionary of English and Folk-names of British Birds ... In the words of nature poet John Clare, “The Old Year’s gone away/To nothingness and night:/We cannot find him all the day ...

Irish coins, for instance, don’t bear images of politicians or poets or martyrs; they have a salmon on one ... and the terrible price of English double-barrels. Last week I rode with a cabby who shot ...

In 1977, when John Wayne read it at Howard Hawks’s ... identified the real author just a few years ago, an unsung poet called Clare Harner. It was fascinating, but he couldn’t answer the ...