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    The Old Year
    The Old Year
    The Old Year
    Audiobook17 minutes

    The Old Year

    Written by John Clare

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self". (Summary from Wikipedia )

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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