Champion of the Poor

Political Poetry and Prose

By: John Clare

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This text brings together Clare's longest poem, "The Parish", and his satires, "The Hue and Cry" and "The Summons". Other poems, some previously unpublished, are included. They reveal his reactions to political and social conditions and events of his age. There are also prose works and fragments in which he reflects on the issues of the day included in the collection. A detailed introduction evokes the larger context of Clare's writings and the difficulties he faced as a labourer trying to voice the concerns of his class in a period when such matters were regarded as the exclusive province of the educated and propertied classes. The book is part of Carcanet's "John Clare Programme".

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the text
Note on Cruikshank
List of illustrations
Helpstone	p. 3
Waterloo	p. 8
On seeing a Lost Greyhound in winter	p. 11
Elegy ... In the Ruins of Pickworth Rutland	p. 12
Labour and Luxury	p. 14
Lobin Clouts Satirical Sollilouquy on the Times	p. 15
One monday morning sour and loath	p. 17
O thrice lucky town (the more lucky poor creatu'rs)	p. 17
O freedom freedom sacred name	p. 18
The Lamentations of Round-Oak Waters	p. 18
A Familliar Epistle To a Friend	p. 25
Helpston Green	p. 29
The Village Minstrel, lines 924-1281	p. 31
England	p. 43
Langley Bush	p. 46
The Mores	p. 46
The Parish	p. 49
Death	p. 113
Greece	p. 115
The Gipseys Song	p. 116
The Poachers	p. 120
Ballad: Boys bring the booty from the cave	p. 123
Robin Hood and the Gamekeepers	p. 125
Honesty though kings revile thee	p. 130
On seeing a Skull on Cowper Green	p. 132
Nelson and the Nile	p. 135
The Cottager	p. 137
The Monarchy of Nature	p. 140
Honesty	p. 141
The Summons	p. 142
Triumphs of Time	p. 150
Just like the lion in alarms	p. 152
Och by jasus hes a irish lad	p. 159
1830	p. 160
George 4th Death	p. 161
The Blues and the Sailors	p. 162
Familiar Epistle to a Friend	p. 165
The Hue and Cry	p. 171
The Fallen Elm	p. 188
The reformers hymn	p. 191
Up honesty a vote of thanks	p. 193
Thou poverty when past thy help	p. 199
Good morning to ye honest swain	p. 201
King William ye'r an honest man	p. 210
The Lament of Swordy Well	p. 214
Thou king of half a score dominions	p. 222
Address to an old Halfpenny	p. 225
Bless thy old fashioned copper face	p. 228
Don Juan	p. 230
London versus Epping Forest	p. 240
Land of perpetual summer Italy	p. 240
To Liberty	p. 241
Love of Liberty	p. 243
The Thistle	p. 244
The Songs of our Land	p. 245
Heres a health to Scotland	p. 246
Notes to the Poems	p. 247
Apology for the Poor	p. 267
Essay on Political Religion	p. 281
The Bone and Cleaver Club	p. 283
Advice to his children	p. 290
Prose from Pet. MS A45	p. 291
Miscellaneous notes and fragments	p. 294
Notes to the Prose	p. 301
Selections from the Letters	p. 309
Appendix	p. 327
Glossary	p. 333
Bibliography	p. 340
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 344
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