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Excerpt: ...any aid of any kind to the peasant-poet the world, and I verily believe the poet himself, remained in ignorance of the amount. AT HIGH BEECH ASYLUM All that was possible was d… Mehr…

Excerpt: ...any aid of any kind to the peasant-poet the world, and I verily believe the poet himself, remained in ignorance of the amount. AT HIGH BEECH ASYLUM All that was possible was done for Clare at the house of Dr. Allen, one of the early reformers of the treatment of lunatics. He was kept pretty constantly employed in the garden, and soon grew stout and robust. After a time he was allowed to stroll beyond the grounds of the asylum and to ramble about the forest. He was perfectly harmless, and would sometimes carry on a conversation in a rational manner, always, however, losing himself in the end in absolute nonsense. In March, 1841, he wrote a long and intelligible letter to Mrs. Clare, almost the only peculiarity in which is that every word is begun with a capital letter. There is no doubt that at this time he was possessed with the idea that he had two wives-Patty, whom he called his second wife, and his life-long ideal, Mary Joyce. In the letter just referred to he begins My dear wife Patty, and in a postscript says, Give my love to the dear boy who wrote to me, and to her who is never forgotten. He wrote verses which he told Dr. Allen were for his wife Mary, and that he intended to take them to her. He made several unsuccessful attempts to escape in the early part of 1841, but in July of that year he contrived to evade both watchers and pursuers, and reached Peterborough after being four days and three nights on the road in a penniless condition, and being so near to dying of starvation that he was compelled to eat grass like the beasts of the field. The day after his return to Northborough he wrote what he called an account of his journey, prefacing the narrative by this remark, Returned home out of Essex and found no Mary. Mr. Martin gives this extraordinary document in his Life of Clare. It is a weird, pathetic and pitiful story, a tragedy all too deep for tears. Having finished the journal of his escape he addressed it with a letter... J. L. Cherry, Books, Biography and Memoir, Life And Remains Of John Clare The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet Books>Biography and Memoir The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: History / General; History / General;<

ISBN: 9781153637800

Excerpt: ...any aid of any kind to the peasant-poet the world, and I verily believe the poet himself, remained in ignorance of the amount. AT HIGH BEECH ASYLUM All that was possible was d… Mehr…

Excerpt: ...any aid of any kind to the peasant-poet the world, and I verily believe the poet himself, remained in ignorance of the amount. AT HIGH BEECH ASYLUM All that was possible was done for Clare at the house of Dr. Allen, one of the early reformers of the treatment of lunatics. He was kept pretty constantly employed in the garden, and soon grew stout and robust. After a time he was allowed to stroll beyond the grounds of the asylum and to ramble about the forest. He was perfectly harmless, and would sometimes carry on a conversation in a rational manner, always, however, losing himself in the end in absolute nonsense. In March, 1841, he wrote a long and intelligible letter to Mrs. Clare, almost the only peculiarity in which is that every word is begun with a capital letter. There is no doubt that at this time he was possessed with the idea that he had two wives-Patty, whom he called his second wife, and his life-long ideal, Mary Joyce. In the letter just referred to he begins My dear wife Patty, and in a postscript says, Give my love to the dear boy who wrote to me, and to her who is never forgotten. He wrote verses which he told Dr. Allen were for his wife Mary, and that he intended to take them to her. He made several unsuccessful attempts to escape in the early part of 1841, but in July of that year he contrived to evade both watchers and pursuers, and reached Peterborough after being four days and three nights on the road in a penniless condition, and being so near to dying of starvation that he was compelled to eat grass like the beasts of the field. The day after his return to Northborough he wrote what he called an account of his journey, prefacing the narrative by this remark, Returned home out of Essex and found no Mary. Mr. Martin gives this extraordinary document in his Life of Clare. It is a weird, pathetic and pitiful story, a tragedy all too deep for tears. Having finished the journal of his escape he addressed it with a letter... J. L. Cherry, Books, Biography and Memoir, Life And Remains Of John Clare The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet Books>Biography and Memoir, General Books LLC<

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