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John Clare
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Entries from the journal that C19th English poet John Clare kept from Sep 1824 - Sep 1825, posted on the day of the year they were written. Built by @adriantoll.bsky.social See johnclaretweets.org for more info. Also see @gilbertwhite.bsky.social
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 21h
come & be attended to for the sake of those left behind. I will insert them in the Appendix. Neglect is the rust of life that eateth it away & layeth the best of minds fallow & maketh them desert. Done nothing.
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 21h
1824: Very ill today & very unhappy my 3 Childern are all unwell had a dismal dream of being in hell. This is the third time I have had such a dream. As I am more & more convinced that I cannot recover, I will make a memorandum of my temporary concerns, for next to the Spiritual, they ought to...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 1d
is the way of danger’. Men have been told this by their own consciences & they have partially or occasionally believed it, but still they walked on; too true. Recievd 3 letters from Van Dyk, Mrs Emmerson & Hessey. Done nothing.
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 1d
1824: Got a parcel from London Elton's Brothers & Allen's Grammar gifts of the authors & Erskine's Internal Evidences of Religion the gift of Lord Radstock one of my best friends a very sensible book. This passage stuck me I first opened 'To walk without God in the world is to walk in sin & sin...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 2d
of middling stuff. In September 'Surrey' popt in another push for his opinion & in October the middling middle one is pushing a go-between again. When will it end. The article on Byron carries ignorance on the face of it. Recievd a letter from Cary.
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 2d
women had an inferior genius to men. In July 'Surrey' put up a little clever petition against it which read very well but proved nothing. In the 'Lion's Head' a little Unknown stuck a letter to the Editor on the same side. In August another popt a plea for female genius between the two opinions...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 2d
1824: Recieved the London Magazine by my friend Henderson who brought it from town with him. A very dull no. The worst of magazines is waste-paper repetition for humbug is editor of them all in the June no. De Quincey had a paper on 'False Distinctions' which contended quite right enough that...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 3d
here) calld Pride shall have a fall or the Twentieth Huzzar written by the Rev. G. Groby and now performing in the Theatre Royal Covent Garden with increased attraction & applause (advt. in the Times). In the Times Telescope they rechristened me Robert Clare: there went the left wing of my fame.
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 3d
1824: One can scarcely trust fame or credit in these days of misrepresentation and deception. This morning a PlayBill was thrown into my house with this pompous Blunder on the face of it.THEATRE MARKET DEEPING On Thursday Evening Oct. 7 1824 'Will be published thepopular new comedy (never acted...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 4d
proving if it was long so I will insert them in the Appendix that my desires may be known & as I am anxious hope attended too tho it often happens otherwise there’s little trust in the world to leave faith behind us upon promises.
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 4d
1824: I have again reflected over my new will & I believe the expression of 'and their respective legal representatives' is wrong so I shall alter it as soon as it is returned - I had several memorandum which I intended to have inserted in the will but I was told it would cost too much in...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 5d
brotherly affection & love.
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 5d
best sort the verse about the 2 children is another addition to the many from Chantreys monument.Let C. Mossop take my new Will home with him for lawyer Taylor to alter - Read in the Testament the Epistle of St. John I love that simple-hearted expression on little children it breathes of...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 5d
something like the serpents wreathing round the artificial trees in Vauxhall Gardens verse 32 about the king­fisher turns on a consiet & verse 66 about the fairys bodice is a worse consiet still - 'May the rose of months the violet of the year' is very pretty the volume is full of beautys of the...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 5d
beautys in it..'The Romance of Youth' is too romantic that is the youth it describes is not a general character yet there are several beautys in it of true poesy the redcap is a beautiful comparison 'Itself a feather'd flower' the comparing the white stem of the Birch to a serpent is bad taste...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 5d
1824: Began to read again 'The Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale with few conseits it begins prettily, 'In the fair city of Florence there did dwell...' & ends sweetly 'The lovely nightingale & watching star, At evening ever their companions are' there is a many...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 6d
which I shall read anon
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 6d
such attempts poor the best poems on religion are those found in the Scriptures which are inimitable & therefor all imitations cannot but be inferior - the first sonnet on autumn is a good one & the Song 'Twas not when early flowers was springing' is beautiful I am much pleased with many more...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 6d
1824: Read the poems of Conder over a second time like some of them very much there is a great many & unpretentious beautys among them the Imitations of the Psalms are good the Ode to the Nightingale is good but the expression Sir Nightingale is bad & spoils it The principal poem is like many...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 7d
interest the money in the Funds to be drawn out & shared equally among my children when the youngest is 21 I don't understand the expression in it of my 'Son & daughters &? their respective Representatives & shall have it alterd - it was signed by W. Bradford & Taylor
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 7d
1824: Had a new will made as the old one was not right proving nothing that I wishd & everything contrary this I don't like I leave C. Mossop E, T. Artis & J. A. Hessey executors & all monies arising from book profits &c. in their trust with that in the Funds & whatever may be put out to...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 8d
version of Colonel Kirk's Cruelty better told in history than prose-poetry 'Amy Welton' is an imitation of the Scotch novelists & of course inferior 'The Lucrece of France' is good
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 8d
1824: Looked over 'The Human Heart' the title has little connection with the contents it displays the art of book making in half-filld pages & fine paper 'The Murderer's Death-bed' is very poor - the worst thing in the Newgate Calendar is as interesting 'Thou shalt do no Evil, etc' is a new...
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 9d
memory is forgotten.
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 9d
gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old whitethorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & Herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its...
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